Polonia /
Protect Andrei Poczobut (a journalist) against prosecution by the Belarusian dictatorship [49]
The Polish Parliament condemned sentencing Poczobut and minister Kamiński announced closure of Polish-Belarusian border crossing in Bobrowniki. There are also going to be further names added on the sanctions list of people persecuting Poles in Belarus:
wiadomosci.wp.pl/decyzja-ws-przejscia-granicznego-zawieszone-do-odwolania-6864635835665280a
Some backround in those articles:
france24.com/en/live-news/20230208-minsk-jails-polish-belarusian-reporter-for-eight-years
"Belarus witnessed a historic protest movement denouncing the controversial 2020 re-election of Lukashenko, who has been in power for nearly 30 years.
Backed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko unleashed a massive crackdown, throwing critics in prison or forcing them into exile.
More than 30 Belarusian journalists are currently in jail in the post-Soviet country."
notesfrompoland.com/2023/02/08/belarus-sentences-polish-minority-leader-and-journalist-to-eight-years-in-prison/
"Poczobut was detained, along with three other Polish minority leaders, including Andżelika Borys, the head of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB), in March 2021. Their arrests came as
part of a wider clampdown on Belarus's large ethnic Polish community after Poland supported the Belarusian opposition in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections."
themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/08/polish-belarusian-journalist-jailed-for-8-years-in-belarus-a80177
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"I do not have any illusions, I will take the sentence calmly and with a calm conscience go to prison," he said in a letter published by his newspaper ahead of the verdict.'
May the judge's name that sentenced him hang in the Hall of Shame:
Dmitry BubenchikWhile Poczobut's name will hang in the Hall of Glory:
