{"id":508491,"date":"2026-01-09T12:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=508491"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:13:22","slug":"coale-says-he-continues-working-on-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-says-he-continues-working-on-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Coale Says He Continues Working on the Release of Political Prisoners in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Special Envoy for Belarus <b>John Coale<\/b> said he continues working on the release of political prisoners in Belarus. This follows from his reply on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/johnpcoale\/status\/2009421751130968544?s=20\">X<\/a> to a message from user Lisa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am Belarusian. I am the wife of a political prisoner. We have small children. My husband has not been released yet, but I have hope and I bless you, Mr. John Coale,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWorking on it. John Coale,\u201d<\/i> he responded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-508469 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29-1095x1024.jpg 1095w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29-768x718.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29-428x400.jpg 428w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo_2026-01-09_12-39-29-856x800.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2025, with the assistance of the United States, 342 people were pardoned. In total, from July 2024, 569 political prisoners have been released under the pardon procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Special Envoy for Belarus John Coale said he continues working on the release of political prisoners in Belarus. This follows from his reply on X to a message from user Lisa. \u201cI am Belarusian. I am the wife of a political prisoner. We have small children. My husband has not been released yet, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":508490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6960d4c6daa47.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Coale Says He Continues Working on the Release of Political Prisoners in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}