Nobel laureates urge Trump to keep pressing for release of Belarusian prisoners


  • World
  • Tuesday, 19 Aug 2025

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House campus in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 5, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

(Reuters) -Nineteen Nobel prize winners have signed an open letter urging U.S. President Donald Trump to keep up pressure to secure the release of as many as 1,300 people imprisoned in Belarus on political grounds.

The letter thanks Trump, who raised the issue in a phone call last week with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and urges him to do more.

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