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Belarus teddy bear arrests, two journalists fined

The fall-out from a a pro-democracy stunt continued today with two journalists arrested for posing for photographs holding teddy bears.

Belarussian journalists Irina Kozlik (L) and Yulia Darashkevich show victory signs from a police car after they were arrested for their involvement in a pro-democracy stunt in which a Swedish light aircraft dropped hundreds of teddy bears over Belarus.

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