Belarus, 123 Political Prisoners Released at Trump's Request.
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and the key figure of the opposition Maria Kolesnikova return free
Maria Kolesnikova, from the opposition, and dozens of other political prisoners were also released.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, convinced the authoritarian Belarusian leader, Alexandr Lukashenko, to pardon on Saturday more than a hundred prisoners, including the Nobel Peace Prize 2022, Ales Bialiatski, in exchange for lifting another package of sanctions against Belarus, which is considered the last dictatorship of Europe and Russia’s main ally in the war in Ukraine. The pardon was the result of two days of intense consul…
Belarusian opposition activist Yulia Jukhno, who lives in Italy, said that Polish journalist Andrzej Poczobut, who is imprisoned in Belarus, refused to be pardoned by Lukashenko, which is why the Pole was not included in the list of people released by the Belarusian regime.
Commenting on the release of more than 123 people from Belarusian prisons for Reuters, US President's special envoy to Belarus John Cole "paid tribute" to Alexander Lukashenko.
Andrzej Poczobut is not among the 123 political prisoners of the Belarusian regime released on Saturday, confirmed the spokesman of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maciej
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