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Poland may impose further sanctions on Belarus over jailed activist

On Friday, the Supreme Court in Minsk rejected an appeal by Andrzej Poczobut (pictured in 2014), a journalist and Polish minority leader, against his sentence. Rafał Guz/PAP

The Polish government has refused to rule out the imposition of further sanctions on Belarus over an eight-year prison sentence slapped on a prominent Polish minority activist in Belarus, an interior minister has said.

Poland to suspend freight traffic on the border with Belarus

The Polish Interior Ministry has announced the closure of Poland’s border with Belarus to Russian and Belarusian freight vehicles until further notice owing to the Belarusian Supreme Court upheld an eight-year prison sentence handed down to a Belarusian-Polish activist.

Poland to sanction Minsk officials over Poczobut ruling

Poland will put sanctions on hundreds of “representatives of the Belarusian regime” after the Belarusian Supreme Court upheld an eight-year prison sentence on Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist and Polish minority leader, the Polish interior minister announced on Friday.

Belarusian court upholds prison sentence for Polish minority activist

The Belarusian Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist and Polish minority leader, against an eight-year prison sentence.

Poland calls on Belarus to free political prisoners

The Polish Foreign Ministry has appealed to Minsk to free all political prisoners, including a Polish minority activist.

Polish-Belarusian border crossing in Bobrowniki to remain closed, says minister

The Polish interior minister has said that the Polish-Belarusian border crossing in Bobrowniki, north-eastern Poland, will remain closed as long as Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian-Polish journalist and minority activist, remains in prison.

Polish activist convicted in Belarus appeals against verdict

Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist and activist of the Polish minority in Belarus, convicted in early February for 'inciting national hatred and rehabilitating Nazism' has appealed against his eight-year prison sentence.

Belarus retaliates for Bobrowniki border crossing closure

Restrictions on Polish hauliers and the expulsion of a Polish border guard liaison officer were announced by the Belarusian foreign ministry on Friday as retaliatory steps for Poland's closure of the Bobrowniki border crossing between the two countries.

Polish charge d'affaires summoned to Belarusian foreign ministry

At 16.30 Warsaw time on Thursday, Poland's charge d'affaires in Minsk was summoned to the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), a Polish foreign ministry spokesman announced.

Poland summons Belarusian envoy over sentencing of Polish activist

Poland's foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the Belarusian charge d’affaires after a Belarusian-Polish journalist and minority activist was sentenced to eight-years' imprisonment for "fomenting hatred" and "acting to the detriment of Belarus".

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