EU condemns Andrzej Pochobut’s sentence
Maja Kocijancic, the press secretary of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has called the sentence “politically motiv
“The sentence is another example of the persecution launched after the election in December 2010, - said Kocijancic. – We are urging the Belarusian authorities to stop persecuting indepdpent mass media”.
Andrzej Pochobut, reporter of Polish “Gazeta Wyborcza” was sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment and will be jailed in two years. The journalist was accused of slandering Alyaksandr Lukashenka, informs BelaPAN.
