Belarus upholds eight-year jail sentence for journalist at top Polish newspaper
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The court rejected the appeal of Andrzej Poczobut, 50, a reporter with Poland’s influential Gazeta Wyborcza.
Belarus’s Supreme Court has upheld an eight-year prison sentence handed to a prominent member of the country’s sizable Polish minority and a correspondent for a top newspaper in Poland.