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| Belarus guard given two-year sentence over teddy bear drop | Belarus guard given two-year sentence over teddy bear drop |
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| A Belarusian court has handed out a two-year prison sentence to a border guard who failed to protect the ex-Soviet nation from foreign teddy bears. | A Belarusian court has handed out a two-year prison sentence to a border guard who failed to protect the ex-Soviet nation from foreign teddy bears. |
| The Belarus supreme court said on Monday that the guard has been convicted of failure to report an intrusion of a light plane that dropped hundreds of teddy bears decked out in parachutes and slogans supporting human rights over the tightly controlled country of 10 million. The court wouldn't give his name or rank. | The Belarus supreme court said on Monday that the guard has been convicted of failure to report an intrusion of a light plane that dropped hundreds of teddy bears decked out in parachutes and slogans supporting human rights over the tightly controlled country of 10 million. The court wouldn't give his name or rank. |
| Belarus's president, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator", already sacked several top defence officials over the incident in July last year in which two Swedish advertising agency employees piloted a light plane into Belarus' heavily guarded airspace in a show of support for Belarusian human rights activists. | Belarus's president, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator", already sacked several top defence officials over the incident in July last year in which two Swedish advertising agency employees piloted a light plane into Belarus' heavily guarded airspace in a show of support for Belarusian human rights activists. |
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