Iryna Khalip, Novaya Gazeta
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Do the authors of the illegal verdicts realize that the party grandees have set them up?
To be honest, no one ever hoped that Dasha and Katsia would be released. It never happens this way in Belarus these days. And in general it never happens so that the judge would suddenly sentence to less than the prosecutor s demand. And the prosecutor wanted precisely two years. And so it happened.
Katsiaryna Andreyeva and
Darja Chultsova, journalists of the Polish Belsat channel, broadcasting in Belarusian, were found guilty of organizing activities that grossly violate public order and sentenced (each of them) to two years in prison.