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  • Vitsebsk journalist Tatsiana Matsveyeva sentenced to eight days of arrest

    The trial took place on August 25 in the Kastrychnitski District Court of Vitsebsk. Judge
    Uladzimir Tsarykau found Tatsiana Matsveyeva guilty of unauthorized picketing.

    Tat­siana Matsveye­va was accused of post­ing a user pic­ture with white and red stripes and Belaru­sian poet Yan­ka Kupala’s words “We want to be called peo­ple” on her Face­book page.

    That was con­sid­ered a pub­lic expres­sion of her polit­i­cal posi­tion. The jour­nal­ist was detained on July 28 and kept in the Vit­seb­sk deten­tion cen­ter for three days. Yes­ter­day, she was tak­en away from the court­room to serve five more days of arrest.

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