{"id":537482,"date":"2026-04-28T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537482"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:51:54","slug":"anzhalika-borys-andrzej-poczobut-may-return-to-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/anzhalika-borys-andrzej-poczobut-may-return-to-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Anzhalika Borys: Andrzej Poczobut May Return To Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former political prisoner <strong><b>Andrzej Poczobut<\/b><\/strong> (Andrei Pachobut), who was released and handed over to Poland as part of an exchange, may return to Belarus, <strong><b>Anzhalika Borys<\/b><\/strong>, a former political prisoner and activist of the Union of Poles, said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAndrzej Poczobut has no restrictions; he can return to Belarus \u2014 Andrzej and I heard such an assurance today in Bia\u0142owie\u017ca,\u201d<\/em> Borys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andzelika.borys\/posts\/pfbid02D9WNCLBZS5LpX8FpvA8fAqtVG1FDwdLnyKYEnC7SUu4sJvWALpDVXkb7LSBPhSf9l\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, on April 28, an exchange under the 5-for-5 formula took place at the Pierarou\u2013Bia\u0142owie\u017ca checkpoint on the Belarusian-Polish border. Three Poles and two Moldovans were released by Belarus and Russia. It is known that Belarus handed over journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/poczobut-released-belarusian-kgb-and-polish-intelligence-agency-carry-out-5-for-5-exchange\"><strong>Andrzej Poczobut<\/strong><\/a> and Carmelite monk <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-hands-over-monk-grzegorz-gawel-to-poland\"><strong><b>Grzegorz Gawe\u0142<\/b><\/strong><\/a> to Poland. Russia extradited two Moldovan intelligence officers to Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>Poland handed over archaeologist <strong><b>Aleksandr Butyagin<\/b><\/strong> to Russia. Moldova handed over Moldovan citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/moldova-hands-over-convicted-traitor-alexandru-balan-to-belarus\"><strong><b>Alexandru Balan<\/b><\/strong><\/a> to Belarus and Russian citizen <strong><b>Nina Popova<\/b><\/strong> to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut (Andrei Pachobut), who was released and handed over to Poland as part of an exchange, may return to Belarus, Anzhalika Borys, a former political prisoner and activist of the Union of Poles, said. \u201cAndrzej Poczobut has no restrictions; he can return to Belarus \u2014 Andrzej and I heard such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f18e6e5e06b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Anzhalika Borys: Andrzej Poczobut May Return To Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537482","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=537482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}