{"id":568436,"date":"2026-08-16T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568436"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:55:18","slug":"john-coale-confirms-possible-imminent-release-of-political-prisoners-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/john-coale-confirms-possible-imminent-release-of-political-prisoners-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"John Coale Confirms Possible Imminent Release Of Political Prisoners In Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. presidential envoy <strong>John Coale<\/strong> answered in the affirmative when asked about the possible release of political prisoners in Belarus in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yana Kovaleva<\/strong>, the sister of political prisoner <strong>Illia Verameyeu<\/strong>, asked Coale on social network <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/johnpcoale\/status\/2088808577322398025?s=20\">X<\/a>: <em>\u201cDear Mr. Coale, can we hope for the release of political prisoners in the near future?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cYes,\u201d<\/i><\/em> Coale replied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pic_10-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-568405 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pic_10-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pic_10-9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pic_10-9-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pic_10-9-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pic_10-9-870x260.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. presidential envoy John Coale answered in the affirmative when asked about the possible release of political prisoners in Belarus in the near future. Yana Kovaleva, the sister of political prisoner Illia Verameyeu, asked Coale on social network X: \u201cDear Mr. Coale, can we hope for the release of political prisoners in the near future?\u201d [&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\/08\/6a81890a58e85.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"John Coale Confirms Possible Imminent Release Of Political Prisoners In Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143174,143118,143178],"class_list":["post-568436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarusskie-politzakljuchennye","tag-belarus","tag-politzakljuchennye"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568436","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=568436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568436\/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=568436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}