Belarusian authorities have released 123 political prisoners in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on potash.
Among those released were Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova.
The prisoner release was the biggest by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko since the Trump administration began talks with the authoritarian leader.
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