Belarus frees 25 prisoners in exchange for the US lifting some sanctions

The U.S. special envoy for Belarus says that the country’s authorities have agreed to release 25 prisoners as part of a deal that includes the lifting of U.S. sanctions against some Belarusian companies. John Coale, President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Belarus, made the statement on Wednesday, a day after meeting Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who pushed for the lifting of the remaining U.S. sanctions against his country. Since U.S.

President Donald Trump returned to the White House, Lukashenko has released hundreds of political prisoners in a series of U.S.-mediated deals that also lifted some U.S. sanctions

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