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Prominent journalist Andrzej Poczobut has been released from jail in Belarus in a swap with Poland that also saw a total of 10 prisoners released as the leader of Belarus seeks improved relations with the West, officials in both countries said on Tuesday. Poczobut, a correspondent for the influential Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and a leading figure among Belarus’ Polish minority, was serving eight years in a penal colony for “harming Belarus’ national security” in a case condemned as politically motivated. His arrest in 2021 drew widespread criticism from Europe and he was later awarded the European Union’s most prestigious…

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