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RFE/RL: Belarusian journalist sentenced for ‘assaulting police’

Published July 18, 2018 at 12:07 pm

Belarusian independant journalist Dzmitry Halko (also spelled Dmitry Galko), 38, accused of attacking a policeman, looks on as he sits in the defendants' cage during a trial in Minsk, on July 17, 2018. The journalist who has written for various media including opposition website Belarussky Partizan, was detained on April 22, accused of attacking a policeman at his appartment.

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MINSK — A Belarusian journalist who reported on the conflict in eastern Ukraine has been sentenced to four years of “limitation of freedom” by a court in Minsk.

The court ruled late on July 17 that Dzmitry Halko was guilty of assaulting a police officer in the Belarusian capital in December.