Belarus on Wednesday sentenced a Polish-Belarusian journalist to eight years in prison over his critical reporting on the Moscow-aligned regime of President Alexander Lukashenko

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Supporters including Polish authorities condemned the trial. Andrzej Poczobut, a correspondent for Poland's top daily Gazeta Wyborcza and an active member of Belarus's Polish diaspora, was sentenced in his home city of Grodno, near the Polish border.

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