{"id":525791,"date":"2026-03-16T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=525791"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:42:30","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-the-united-states-has-leverage-to-secure-release-of-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-the-united-states-has-leverage-to-secure-release-of-political-prisoners","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya: The United States Has Leverage to Secure Release of Political Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> expressed gratitude to the United States for efforts to secure the release of political prisoners in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI appreciate the efforts of \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Special Envoy John Coale and President Donald Trump to secure the release of political hostages in Belarus. As I said before, the United States has the leverage to help make this happen. This is about saving people\u2019s lives. Every day matters,\u201d<\/i> she <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tsihanouskaya\/status\/2033432270544015698\">wrote<\/a> in English.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that a visit by a US delegation led by <b>John Coale<\/b> to Minsk is expected this week. According to Lithuanian media, he will arrive in Vilnius on March 18 and then travel to the Belarusian capital.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> also confirmed an upcoming meeting with the Americans. Among <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/political-prisoners-economy-embassy-work-lukashenka-on-agenda-of-talks-with-the-united-states\">the topics of the talks<\/a> he named political prisoners, the restoration of the embassy\u2019s work, economic issues and sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya expressed gratitude to the United States for efforts to secure the release of political prisoners in a post on X. \u201cI appreciate the efforts of \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Special Envoy John Coale and President Donald Trump to secure the release of political hostages in Belarus. As I said before, the United States has the leverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":522425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b7c27b80871.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya: The United States Has Leverage to Secure Release of Political Prisoners"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143118,143172],"class_list":["post-525791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525791","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=525791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}