Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap dealSakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivated The Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the 2025 Sakharov prize winner, has been freed after five years in a Belarusian penal colony as part of a US-brok...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/journalist-andrzej-poczobut-freed-prison-belarus-us-brokered-swap-deal#Belarus #Poland #USforeignpolicy #DonaldTusk #Pressfreedom #TheGuardian(Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:01:18 +0000)
