{"id":552997,"date":"2026-06-21T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=552997"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:26:53","slug":"coale-promises-more-political-prisoner-releases-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-promises-more-political-prisoner-releases-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Coale Promises More Political Prisoner Releases in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. presidential envoy <b>John Coale<\/b> has promised further releases of political prisoners in Belarus. He made the remark in response to a post by <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> on X marking the anniversary of the release of 14 political prisoners, including her husband, <b>Siarhei Tsikhanouski<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;A year ago, I embraced my beloved husband Siarhei Tsikhanouski after five long years of separation. I want every family of every political prisoner in Belarus to experience the same joy. I am deeply grateful to everyone who helped make his release possible, especially John Coale and <b>Chris Smith<\/b>,&#8221;<\/i> the Belarusian opposition leader wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Coale reposted the message and replied: <i>&#8220;There will be more!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Coale said that the process of securing the release of Belarusian political prisoners had not stopped. He also indicated that he could soon appear in Minsk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There were will be more! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jIfNjVnpz6\">https:\/\/t.co\/jIfNjVnpz6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; john coale (@johnpcoale) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/johnpcoale\/status\/2068658846973808922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 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 has promised further releases of political prisoners in Belarus. He made the remark in response to a post by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on X marking the anniversary of the release of 14 political prisoners, including her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski. &#8220;A year ago, I embraced my beloved husband Siarhei Tsikhanouski after five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a38c7a1a71a6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Coale Promises More Political Prisoner Releases in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143174,143118,143178,143172],"class_list":["post-552997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarusskie-politzakljuchennye","tag-belarus","tag-politzakljuchennye","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552997","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=552997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}