{"id":570287,"date":"2026-08-22T21:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=570287"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:42:24","slug":"nyt-coale-expects-large-group-of-political-prisoners-to-be-released-in-the-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/nyt-coale-expects-large-group-of-political-prisoners-to-be-released-in-the-near-future","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Coale Expects Large Group Of Political Prisoners To Be Released In The Near Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. President\u2019s Special Envoy for Belarus <b>John Coale<\/b> said a large group of Belarusian political prisoners could be released \u201cin the very near future.\u201d He made the remarks in an interview with The New York Times Moscow correspondent <b>Valerie Hopkins<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Coale also said that Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate <b>Dmitry Muratov<\/b> had approached him with a request to help organize an exchange of civilian prisoners between Russia and Ukraine. The American diplomat said he had received financial commitments from two organizations to relocate released prisoners to other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President\u2019s Special Envoy for Belarus John Coale said a large group of Belarusian political prisoners could be released \u201cin the very near future.\u201d He made the remarks in an interview with The New York Times Moscow correspondent Valerie Hopkins. Coale also said that Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov had approached him with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"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\/08\/6a8aa4646ca17.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"NYT: Coale Expects Large Group Of Political Prisoners To Be Released In The Near Future"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570287","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=570287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570287\/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=570287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}