{"id":549736,"date":"2026-06-10T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=549736"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:54:30","slug":"coale-responds-to-question-about-pause-in-political-prisoner-releases-and-possible-visit-to-minsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-responds-to-question-about-pause-in-political-prisoner-releases-and-possible-visit-to-minsk","title":{"rendered":"Coale Responds to Question About Pause in Political Prisoner Releases and Possible Visit to Minsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. presidential envoy <b>John Coale<\/b> said that the process of releasing Belarusian political prisoners has not been halted. He was responding to a question on X from Radio Svaboda journalist <strong>D\u017amitry Hurnievi\u010d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Mr. Coale, has the process of releasing political prisoners been suspended? When can we expect you in Minsk?&#8221;<\/i> Hurnievi\u010d asked.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;No,&#8221;<\/i> Coale replied briefly.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that Reuters published an article yesterday in which <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> told the news agency that <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-says-u-s-reports-delay-in-release-of-additional-belarusian-political-prisoners\">&#8220;the next releases were postponed for a while.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qst\" dir=\"ltr\">No <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8umkrz3nz5\">https:\/\/t.co\/8umkrz3nz5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; john coale (@johnpcoale) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/johnpcoale\/status\/2064673000465608864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. presidential envoy John Coale said that the process of releasing Belarusian political prisoners has not been halted. He was responding to a question on X from Radio Svaboda journalist D\u017amitry Hurnievi\u010d. &#8220;Mr. Coale, has the process of releasing political prisoners been suspended? When can we expect you in Minsk?&#8221; Hurnievi\u010d asked. &#8220;No,&#8221; Coale replied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":526945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a29507a60d4a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Coale Responds to Question About Pause in Political Prisoner Releases and Possible Visit to Minsk"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549736","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=549736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}