{"id":537689,"date":"2026-04-29T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537689"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:21:59","slug":"reporters-without-borders-welcomes-poczobut-s-release-and-urges-freedom-for-all-belarusian-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/reporters-without-borders-welcomes-poczobut-s-release-and-urges-freedom-for-all-belarusian-journalists","title":{"rendered":"Reporters Without Borders Welcomes Poczobut\u2019s Release and Urges Freedom for All Belarusian Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has welcomed the release of <b>Andrzej Poczobut<\/b>. At the same time, the statement notes that 21 journalists remain imprisoned in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;RSF welcomes the release of Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, who was arbitrarily detained for more than five years. While this is excellent news, his release came as part of a prisoner exchange, illustrating the Lukashenko regime\u2019s continued instrumentalisation of political prisoners. RSF calls on the Belarusian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release the 21 other journalists still detained&#8221;<\/em>, said <b>Jeanne Cavelier<\/b>, head of RSF\u2019s Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/belarus-andrzej-poczobut-finally-free-rsf-urges-minsk-release-all-detained-journalists\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has welcomed the release of Andrzej Poczobut. At the same time, the statement notes that 21 journalists remain imprisoned in Belarus. &#8220;RSF welcomes the release of Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, who was arbitrarily detained for more than five years. While this is excellent news, his release came as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":537688,"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\/69f1dbcb2868d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Reporters Without Borders Welcomes Poczobut\u2019s Release and Urges Freedom for All Belarusian Journalists"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537689","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=537689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}