{"id":526847,"date":"2026-03-19T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=526847"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:26:19","slug":"some-political-prisoners-removed-from-belarusian-colonies-rights-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/some-political-prisoners-removed-from-belarusian-colonies-rights-defenders","title":{"rendered":"Some Political Prisoners Removed From Belarusian Colonies \u2014 Rights Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On March 18, some political prisoners were removed from at least two Belarusian penal colonies, the human rights centre Viasna <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasna96\/34112\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to rights defenders, they were taken from Colony No. 15 in Mahilyou and Colony No. 1 in Navapolatsk.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, talks were held in Minsk between <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> and US President\u2019s Special Envoy for Belarus <b>John Coale<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka said Belarus <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-says-belarus-ready-to-follow-agreements-with-us-on-political-prisoners\">is ready to follow agreements<\/a> with the United States regarding political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;But we have discussed this issue remotely, in correspondence. I think that, in general, we have come to a certain understanding. And the Belarusian side is ready to follow our agreements. I think there will be no particular problems here,&#8221;<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 18, some political prisoners were removed from at least two Belarusian penal colonies, the human rights centre Viasna reported. According to rights defenders, they were taken from Colony No. 15 in Mahilyou and Colony No. 1 in Navapolatsk. On the same day, talks were held in Minsk between Alyaksandr Lukashenka and US President\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69bbcf517b59a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Some Political Prisoners Removed From Belarusian Colonies \u2014 Rights Defenders"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[143178],"class_list":["post-526847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","tag-politzakljuchennye"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526847","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=526847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}