The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) celebrated on Thursday the release of at least eight Belarusian journalists, part of a group of 52 political prisoners freed as the US eased sanctions on Belarus’ state airline Belavia.

Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator, shared a statement on the release:

CPJ celebrates that at least eight Belarusian journalists can finally return to their families after being freed from prison. They were unjustly detained for years and shouldn’t have spent a day in jail […] Many more journalists remain languishing in Belarusian jails in retaliation for their work and we call on authorities to release them all.

The broader prisoner release, which also included opposition leaders, trade union figures, and activists, follows negoti

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