{"id":43863,"date":"2022-09-23T13:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lukasenka-says-amnesty-not-political-trading-with-the-west\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lukasenka-says-amnesty-not-political-trading-with-the-west","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43863\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka says amnesty not &#8220;political trading with the West&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>September 23, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Pardoning and amnesty in Belarus are not &#8220;political trading with the West,&#8221; said Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka during his visit to the Chatyn memorial complex on September 23.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The statement comes two weeks after a government conference on a possible amnesty for 8,000 people, including participants in mass rallies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;I do not trade in people. I have never done it and I do not intend to do so,&#8221; \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s press office quoted him as saying. &#8220;But if there is a possibility for a compromise, we must do it . . . They [prisoners] will get out sooner or later anyway.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On September 21, Belarusian authorities released prominent <span>RFE\/RL<\/span> journalist Aleh Hru\u017adzi\u0142ovi\u010d after almost nine months behind bars. The journalist was serving an 18-month prison sentence for participation in protests. Hru\u017adzi\u0142ovi\u010d said he was pardoned despite insisting that he was not guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, BPN. Pardoning and amnesty in Belarus are not &#8220;political trading with the West,&#8221; said Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka during his visit to the Chatyn memorial complex on September 23. The statement comes two weeks after a government conference on a possible amnesty for 8,000 people, including participants in mass rallies. &#8220;I do not trade in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43863","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u0141uka\u0161enka says amnesty not &quot;political trading with the West&quot; | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 23, BPN. 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