Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap deal
Sakharov 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-brokered multi-country swap deal
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