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Arrested Belarus dissident weeps in interview on state TV

by Yuras Karmanau
| June 3, 2021 3:06 PM

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The dissident Belarusian journalist and opposition activist who was arrested after his airline flight was diverted to Minsk wept Thursday in an interview on state television, saying he was fully cooperating with investigators and declaring that he respects the authoritarian president he opposed for years.

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