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A German citizen held and sentenced to death in Belarus has asked President Alexander Lukashenko for mercy in a video broadcast on state television on Thursday. The German government wasn’t doing anything to save him, the man, who was sentenced for carrying out terrorism offences on behalf on Ukraine, said. “I plead guilty, definitely,” he said in German, with his statements partially audible amid the Russian translation. Belarus is the last country in Europe that still issues the death penalty. The man was sentenced to death in June, including on mercenary charges, but the verdict was only ma…

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