Belarus has freed 123 prisoners including a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Japanese man who had been sentenced for espionage, in exchange for the lifting of U.S. sanctions on potash, a key agricultural export of the Eastern European nation, according to Reuters and other media reports.Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko announced the pardon Saturday for prisoners including foreign nationals, in line with agreements reached with U.S. President Donald Trump, with Trump's envoy, John Coale, saying that around 1,000 remaining political prisoners in Belarus could be released in the coming …READ FULL ARTICLE
