{"id":527271,"date":"2026-03-20T14:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=527271"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:40:59","slug":"pardoned-political-prisoners-begin-to-be-released-rights-defenders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/pardoned-political-prisoners-begin-to-be-released-rights-defenders-say","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned Political Prisoners Begin to Be Released, Rights Defenders Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Pardoned political prisoners in Belarus have begun to be released, according to human rights defenders.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We are receiving the first reports that people from the list have started leaving colonies in Belarus,&#8221;<\/i> the Dissidentby initiative said.<\/p>\n<p>As of the morning, the initiative had reported that none of those on the pardon list had yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, following talks between <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> and US President\u2019s Special Envoy <b>John Coale<\/b>, it was announced that 250 political prisoners had been pardoned. Fifteen were transferred to Lithuania without documents, while the remaining 235 were expected to be released and remain in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardoned political prisoners in Belarus have begun to be released, according to human rights defenders. &#8220;We are receiving the first reports that people from the list have started leaving colonies in Belarus,&#8221; the Dissidentby initiative said. As of the morning, the initiative had reported that none of those on the pardon list had yet been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":521332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69bd3251356f5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Pardoned Political Prisoners Begin to Be Released, Rights Defenders Say"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527271","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=527271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}