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Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of “discrediting the Republic of Belarus” and sentenced him to four years in prison, as the country continues its crackdown on dissent. A court in Molodechno, a city in central Belarus, also ordered Aliaksandr Mantsevich, chief editor of the popular Regionalnaya Gazeta newspaper, to pay a fine of 94,000 Belarusian rubles (about $30,000), the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported. The authorities accused Mantsevich and his newspaper of using content that had been de...

Belarusian authorities have convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of "discrediting the Republic of Belarus" and sentenced him to four years in prison.

Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of "discrediting the Republic of Belarus" and sentenced him to four years in prison, as the country continues its crackdown on dissent.

Belarus has convicted chief editor Aliaksandr Mantsevich of the independently-run Regionalnaya Gazeta newspaper of "discrediting the Republic," sentencing him to four years in prison.

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