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FILE - Journalist Andrzej Poczobut stands in a defendants' cage in court in Grodno, Belarus, on Jan. 16, 2023. (Leonid Shcheglov/Pool via AP, File)

Belarus frees prominent journalist Andrzej Poczobut in a 10-person prisoner swap

By Claudia Ciobanu and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

FILE - Journalist Andrzej Poczobut stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Grodno, Belarus, on Jan. 16, 2023. Belarus' Supreme Court on Friday, May 26, 2023, upheld an eight-year prison sentence that was handed to a journalist and prominent member of the country's sizeable Polish minority as part of the government's sweeping, years-long crackdown on opposition figures, human rights activists and independent reporters. The Court rejected the appeal of Andrzej Poczobut, a 50-year-old reporter with Gazeta Wyborcza, an influential Polish newspaper.(Leonid Shcheglov/Pool via AP, File)

Belarus upholds 8-year prison sentence for journalist of top Polish newspaper

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