Languages: FrançaisPoland threatened Minsk with sanctions after a court in Grodno sentenced Andrzej Poczobut, Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist living in Belarus, to eight years in prison. Poland and the EU subjects representatives of the Belarusian repression apparatus – “judges, prosecutors, officials and others who took part in the persecution of Andrzej Poczobut and our compatriots in Belarus” – to personal sanctions, the document reads. Free Belarus and its faithful son Andrzej Poczobut will win,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda