Authorities in the United States have released former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez , who was serving a lengthy prison sentence for drug trafficking, after US President Donald Trump pardoned him.

Hernandez’s lawyer, Renato Stabile, confirmed that the former Honduran president was freed on Tuesday, a day after being pardoned.

“President Trump has issued a full and unconditional pardon, signed, Dec 1, 2025. President Hernandez was released from prison early this morning,” Stabile told Al Jazeera in an email.

A federal prison database showed that Hernandez was released from a detention centre in West Virginia after spending more than three years in US jail .

Last year, Hernandez was sentenced to 45 years for involvement in a scheme to export cocaine in the US, which pros

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