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Belarus sentences Japanese man to 7 years in prison for spying

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A court in Belarus has sentenced a Japanese citizen to seven years in prison for spying, prosecutors said on Monday, in a case that officials in the Russian-allied country have not fully explained.

The man, identified by prosecutors as Nakanishi Masatoshi, was detained in July but Minsk announced the arrest only in September.

A Minsk court found him guilty of “espionage activity”, the office of Belarus’ prosecutor general said.

It said the court convicted him of cooperating with a “special service, security and intelligence agency of a foreign state, involving actions knowingly aimed at harming the national security” of Belarus.

Nakanishi had lived in Gomel, Belarus’ second-largest city, since 2018 and taught Japanese at a local university, according to Belarusian state-controlled media.

Prosecutors said the man carried out the espionage between 2018 and 2024.

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