{"id":100138,"date":"2024-08-12T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/100138\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"borys-denies-reports-that-pacobut-refuses-to-leave-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/100138\/","title":{"rendered":"Borys denies reports that Pa\u010dobut refuses to leave Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Demonstration in support of Pa\u010dobut in October 2023\n <\/div>\n \n
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August 12, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Polish minority activist Andrej Pa\u010dobut (Andrzej Poczobut) agreed to leave Belarus if released from prison, Rzeczpospolita<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The daily cited An\u017ealika Borys (And\u017celika Borys), a Hrodna-based Polish minority leader who met with the prisoner in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He agreed to leave the country at my request. Andrzej looked very bad. My heart sank,” Borys said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Ma\u0142gorzata Paprocka, head of the Polish President\u2019s Chancellery, said Pa\u010dobut “does not want to leave Belarus without being able to return there someday.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prisoner’s position needs to be taken “very seriously,” she told TVN24<\/em>, commenting on efforts to negotiate Pa\u010dobut’s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rzeczpospolita <\/em>also reported that Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak denied the August 9 claim by Juryj Vaskrasienski, a Belarusian pro-government activist, that Warsaw had rejected \u0141uka\u0161enka’s “goodwill” proposal to free Pa\u010dobut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Siemoniak, \u0141uka\u0161enka has never made such a proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have insisted on Pa\u010dobut’s release for months. The Belarusian side has never proposed it in any form, either directly or as part of a major international or bilateral swap,” the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 17, Siemoniak said that if Belarus agreed to release Pa\u010dobut, stop facilitating illegal migration and help Poland arrest a suspect in the murder of Sgt. Mateusz Sitek, Warsaw would be willing to build relations “more pragmatically.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2023, the Hrodna Regional Court sentenced Pa\u010dobut to eight years in prison after Judge D\u017amitryj Bubien\u010dyk found him guilty of inciting hatred and calling for sanctions. Human rights defenders declared Pa\u010dobut political prisoner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to unconfirmed reports, Pa\u010dobut refused to petition Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka for pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to Pa\u010dobut\u2019s imprisonment, Poland closed the Babrowniki crossing at the border with Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Pa\u010dobut would like to come back to Belarus if released \u2013 Polish official<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 12, Pozirk. Polish minority activist Andrej Pa\u010dobut (Andrzej Poczobut) agreed to leave Belarus if released from prison, Rzeczpospolita reported. The daily cited An\u017ealika Borys (And\u017celika Borys), a Hrodna-based Polish minority leader who met with the prisoner in April. “He agreed to leave the country at my request. Andrzej looked very bad. My heart sank,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":8788,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-100138","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBorys denies reports that Pa\u010dobut refuses to leave Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 12, Pozirk. 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