Andrzej Poczobut to stand trial today

Hrodna journalist and reporter of Gazeta Wyborcza was sentenced to imprisonment with a respite for “slandering the President”.

His articles on the website of Belarusian Partisan and in Gazeta Wyborcza were the reason for it. Hrodna Lenin District Court decided to imprison the journalist on July 5, 2011 with a 2-year respite.

 Poczobut did not even know the exact date of the end of his respite and was summoned to court only on September 21. “Well, let’s be released, why not,” the journalist wrote in his blog.