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  • Belarusian philosopher handed five-year prison term as journalist, blogger go on trial

    MINSK -- Well-known Belarusian philosopher Uladzimer Matskevich has been sentenced to five years in prison over his active participation in public events questioning the official results of the August 2020 presidential poll that handed victory to authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

    The Min­sk region­al court sen­tenced Matske­vich on June 23 after find­ing him guilty of par­tic­i­pat­ing in unsanc­tioned events that dis­rupt social order, cre­at­ing an extrem­ist group, and insult­ing Lukashen­ka online.

    Matske­vich was arrest­ed in August last year.

    In Feb­ru­ary, the 66-year-old philoso­pher went on a two-week hunger strike, demand­ing a trans­fer to house arrest, but his demand was ignored by the author­i­ties.

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