Sentences and pardon: that there were with opponents Alexander Lukashenko

The victory Alexander Lukashenko on elections President of the Republic Belarus caused on August 9, 2020 protest actions. Against their participants more than 4,7 thousand criminal cases were brought. On May 3, 2023 Roman Protasevich sentenced the former editor-in-chief of the Nexta telegram-channel to eight years of a colony. On May 22 it became known of its pardon. At the beginning of June Alexander Lukashenko pardoned also the Russian Sofya Sapega, detained together with Protasevich in 2021. daily business newspaper "RBK daily" remembered that there was with opponents of the Belarusian authorities Roman Protasevich a Photo: information agency "Reuters" In the first weeks after elections of Nexta and other telegram-channels were...