Suspended Sentence for Belarus Journalist

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By: Roy Greenslade | Guardian.co.uk

The Belarus journalist Irina Khalip - a correspondent for the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta - has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence on a charge of helping to organise, and take part in, a protest rally.

Khalip is the wife of Andrei Sannikov, who is serving a five-year sentence after being convicted of causing mass unrest following the disputed re-election last December by President Alexander Lukashenko.

Sannikov was one of five presidential candidates who was arrested after the election protest.

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