{"id":523253,"date":"2026-03-06T00:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=523253"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:34:02","slug":"us-president-s-special-envoy-thanks-lukashenka-for-releasing-18-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/us-president-s-special-envoy-thanks-lukashenka-for-releasing-18-political-prisoners","title":{"rendered":"US President\u2019s Special Envoy Thanks Lukashenka for Releasing 18 Political Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>US President\u2019s special envoy <b>John Coale<\/b> thanked <b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> for pardoning 18 political prisoners. Coale wrote about this on his blog on the social network X.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<\/i><i>Thank you, President Lukashenka, for pardoning 18 political prisoners today. This is another notable step in the relationship between the U.S. and Belarus as President <strong>Trump<\/strong> has tasked me with getting all the political prisoners out,&#8221;<\/i> the message said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka signed a decree on March 5 pardoning 18 people. Fifteen of them had been convicted under \u201cextremism\u201d articles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, President Lukashenka, for pardoning 18 political prisoners today. This is another notable step in the relationship between the U.S. and Belarus as President Trump has tasked me with getting all the political prisoners out.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; john coale (@johnpcoale) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/johnpcoale\/status\/2029645692541550905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President\u2019s special envoy John Coale thanked Aliaksandr Lukashenka for pardoning 18 political prisoners. Coale wrote about this on his blog on the social network X. &#8220;Thank you, President Lukashenka, for pardoning 18 political prisoners today. This is another notable step in the relationship between the U.S. and Belarus as President Trump has tasked me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a9f6d04f905.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"US President\u2019s Special Envoy Thanks Lukashenka for Releasing 18 Political Prisoners"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523253","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}