Belarus: Guard Sentenced Over Teddy Bear Intrusion
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Version 0 of 1. A court has given a two-year prison sentence to a border guard who failed to protect Belarus from foreign teddy bears. The Supreme Court said Monday that the guard had been convicted of failure to report an intrusion of a light plane that dropped hundreds of teddy bears strapped to parachutes into Belarus last year. The bears were adorned with slogans supporting human rights. The court would not give the guard’s name or rank. President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko already fired several top defense officials over the July 4 incident, in which two Swedish advertising agency employees piloted a light plane into the airspace of Belarus in a show of support for the country’s human rights activists. |