{"id":222185,"date":"2025-12-30T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=222185"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:09:11","slug":"lukashenko-grants-pardon-to-22-convicts-20-of-whom-are-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/222185\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenko grants pardon to 22 convicts, 20 of whom are political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree granting pardons to 22 individuals, <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/lukashenko-pomiloval-22-osuzhdennyh-20-iz-nih-politzaklyuchennye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meduza.io<\/a> reports, citing Lukashenko&rsquo;s press service.<\/p>\n<p>Of those pardoned, 20 had been convicted on charges related to so-called &ldquo;extremist activities.&rdquo; The list of those granted clemency includes 15 women and seven men, 11 of whom have minor children. The names of the pardoned individuals have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the presidential press service, all of those pardoned had submitted personal requests for clemency to the head of state, acknowledged their guilt, and expressed remorse.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Viasna Human Rights Center maintains that the 20 individuals are political prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree granting pardons to 22 individuals, meduza.io reports, citing Lukashenko&rsquo;s press service. Of those pardoned, 20 had been convicted on charges related to so-called &ldquo;extremist activities.&rdquo; The list of those granted clemency includes 15 women and seven men, 11 of whom have minor children. The names of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222186,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222185\/revisions\/222186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}