{"id":1387585,"date":"2026-04-28T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/poland-and-belarus-exchange-prisoners-journalist-pochobut-released\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:50:09","slug":"poland-and-belarus-exchange-prisoners-journalist-pochobut-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/poland-and-belarus-exchange-prisoners-journalist-pochobut-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland and Belarus exchange prisoners: journalist Pochobut released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"1091\"><strong>Poland and Belarus exchanged prisoners in a five-for-five exchange on April 28. Among those released from a Belarusian prison is journalist Andrzej Poczobut, who spent five years behind bars for criticizing the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1134\"> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmf24.pl\/fakty\/news-andrzej-poczobut-na-wolnosci-wymiana-pieciu-na-pieciu-z-bial,nId,8079496\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RMF24<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polsatnews.pl\/wiadomosc\/2026-04-28\/andrzej-poczobut-uwolniony-z-bialoruskiego-wiezienia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polsat News<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1327\"> US President Donald Trump&#8217;s special representative for Belarus, John Cole, said that the American team helped free three Polish citizens and two Moldovan citizens.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1409\"> According to him, Poland, Moldova, and Romania played an important role in this work.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1411\" data-end=\"1618\"> &#8220;We thank Poland, Moldova, and Romania for their invaluable support in these efforts, as well as for President Alexander Lukashenko&#8217;s willingness to engage constructively with the United States,&#8221; Cole said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1620\" data-end=\"1738\"> One of the most famous released was Andrzej Poczobut &#8211; a journalist, activist and representative of the Polish community in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1898\"> He was detained after criticizing the Belarusian authorities, and the case caused significant resonance in Poland and caused diplomatic tension between Warsaw and Minsk.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1900\" data-end=\"1950\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Pochobut spent five years in a Belarusian prison. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow \u201cPryamim\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland and Belarus exchanged prisoners in a five-for-five exchange on April 28. Among those released from a Belarusian prison is journalist Andrzej Poczobut, who spent five years behind bars for criticizing the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. This is reported by RMF24 and Polsat News . US President Donald Trump&#8217;s special representative for Belarus, John Cole, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1387576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1387585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}