Nobel Peace Prize winners and others who took on the president of Belarus are among the freed prisoners
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka, as part of a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions on the country’s vital fertilizer exports. A close ally of Russia, the authoritarian President of Belarus, Alexander … Read more