20 June 2002 HRODNA, 19 June (Racyja)–A court in the western Belarusian city of Hrodna on 19 June continued hearings in the case of Mikola Markevich and Pavel Mazeika, journalists from the closed newspaper Pahonia who are charged with slandering Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The state prosecutors have requested two and a half years in jail for Markevich, the newspaper’s […]
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