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Prosecutors accused the politician of incitement to hatred, high treason, conspiracy to overthrow the government and other alleged serious crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Via\u010dorka pointed out that the Minsk City Court did not let him attend the trial via a video link. The state-appointed defense attorney contacted him only once to persuade him to visit Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an electronic schedule, the Supreme Court will hear his appeal on September 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n                                <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> \u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">\u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Pardon for 30 political prisoners no evidence of policy change \u2013 Cichano\u016dskaja&#039;s adviser<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">September 4, Pozirk. \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja&#039;s office is extremely happy with the upcoming release of 30 more political prisoners and continues to work with its international allies for the release of others, said Franak Via\u010dorka, chief adviser to the Belarusian opposition &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/103505\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 5, Pozirk. Franak Via\u010dorka has appealed against his sentence to &#8220;document the lawlessness of the farcical trial and the falsity of the accusation.&#8221; &#8220;We should do it even if we know how they will respond,&#8221; Via\u010dorka told Pozirk. On June 20, the Minsk City Court sentenced him to 20 years behind bars, without the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-103715","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exiled politician says he appealed to document lawlessness | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 5, Pozirk. 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