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I was sentenced to ten years in absentia for highlighting Belarus’s descent into dictatorship
At the beginning of July, I was one of twenty internationally-based Belarusian academics, analysts, and journalists to be sentenced in absentia by a court in Minsk on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government and taking part in an extremist group. …