Ana Corina Sosa Machado read a speech prepared by her mother, María Corina Machado, that said, “Freedom is not something we wait for, but something we become.”

Belarusian authorities have freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka, as part of a deal with Washington that lifted U.

Belarus has announced released 123 people, including foreigners, who were being held in prison on "espionage, terrorism, and extremism" charges.

Human rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski fought for decades on behalf of political prisoners in Belarus, earning the Nobel Peace Prize but paying the cost of his own freedom. The Nobel award in 2022 made Bialiatski a globally recognised symbol of resistance to the authoritarian rule of President Alexander Lukashenko,

John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, said that normalizing relations between Washington and Minsk was "our goal."

Narges Mohammadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was beaten and arrested in Iran on Friday while addressing a crowd in the city of Mashhad, according to her family. “If they intend to hurt her, I don’t see any positive outcome,” says Hamid Reza Mohammadi, a brother, speaking to TIME from Oslo. “The biggest concern I have is her health.”

María Corina Machado emerged from her hiding place aboard a small fishing boat in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. “It’s me, María!” she shouted.

Hours after being freed from a Belarusian prison under a US deal, dissident Ales Bialiatski vowed to continue his fight for democracy from exile and told AFP his Nobel Peace Prize saved him from the worst treatment in prison.