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Authorities said he edited and wrote for the <span>Vestniki <\/span>samizdat periodical that was declared extremist a few weeks after his arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A native of Mahilo\u016d, Famin worked as copywriter in Minsk after graduating from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 4, BPN. The Minsk City Court has sentenced Andrej Famin, 29, to seven years in a medium-security prison, the Viasna Human Rights Center reports. Judge An\u017eela Ka\u015bciukievi\u010d reportedly handed down the verdict on June 21, finding Famin guilty of participating in protests, calling for sanctions order and creating an extremist group. 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