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Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed as part of US-brokered Polish-Belarusian prisoner swap – as it happened

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Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed as part of prisoners swap Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the 2025 Sakharov prize winner, has been freed from Belarusian prison. His release has been confirmed by Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk, who posted a picture of him on social media saying : “ Andrzej Poczobut is free! Welcome to your Polish home, my friend.” Detained by the Belarusian authorities in 2021, Poczobut was sentenced to eight years in a penal colony after a process widely condemned as politically motivated to silence critics. In recent years there were growing warnings about his deteriorating health.…

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