Belarus frees 123 prisoners including Ales Bialiatski as US lifts sanctions
Update: 2025-12-13
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Belarus has freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova, in exchange for sanctions relief from the United States. John Coale, the US special envoy for Belarus, announced the lifting of sanctions on potash on Saturday after two days of talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk. Pavel Slankin, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a former Belarus diplomat, joins Al Jazeera’s live from Warsaw. Also, Anes Meryn, a former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Belarus, joins live from Vilnius. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #BelarusPrisoners #BelarusSanctions #Lukashenko #PoliticalPrisoners #HumanRightsBelarus #BelarusOpposition #MariaKalesnikava #AlesBialatsky #Belarus #AlJazeeraEnglish
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