{"id":540893,"date":"2026-05-09T17:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540893"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:08:03","slug":"coale-promises-to-raise-case-of-19-year-old-political-prisoner-sentenced-to-10-years-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-promises-to-raise-case-of-19-year-old-political-prisoner-sentenced-to-10-years-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Coale Promises to Raise Case of 19-Year-Old Political Prisoner Sentenced to 10 Years in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former political prisoner <b>Siarhei Sparysh<\/b>, released on Sept. 11, 2025, with U.S. assistance, appealed to U.S. presidential envoy <b>John Coale<\/b> to help secure the release of 19-year-old political prisoner <b>Aliaksandra Pulinovich<\/b> from a penal colony.<\/p>\n<p>Coale published a video address by Sparysh on his X page and commented on it.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cOn my next trip to Belarus I will bring up your friend,\u201d<\/i> he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On my next trip to Belarus I will bring up your friend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gColDrCVri\">https:\/\/t.co\/gColDrCVri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; john coale (@johnpcoale) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/johnpcoale\/status\/2053087293452198370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aliaksandra Pulinovich was detained in January 2024 at the age of 16 in connection with the \u201cBlack Nightingales\u201d case. The case concerns a group of teenagers accused by the authorities of cooperating with Ukrainian special services and preparing acts of sabotage. In 2025, Aliaksandra was sentenced to 10 years and three months in a medium-security penal colony on charges related to desecration of buildings, illegal handling of explosives, and attempted terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>She is now 19 years old and serving her sentence at Penal Colony No. 4 in Homiel. In February 2026, the KGB added her to the \u201clist of terrorists\u201d, which means a ban on money transfers to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former political prisoner Siarhei Sparysh, released on Sept. 11, 2025, with U.S. assistance, appealed to U.S. presidential envoy John Coale to help secure the release of 19-year-old political prisoner Aliaksandra Pulinovich from a penal colony. Coale published a video address by Sparysh on his X page and commented on it. \u201cOn my next trip to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":540892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69ff69f6e4427.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Coale Promises to Raise Case of 19-Year-Old Political Prisoner Sentenced to 10 Years in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143174,143178],"class_list":["post-540893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarusskie-politzakljuchennye","tag-politzakljuchennye"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540893","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=540893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}