Ales Lyubyanchuk has been sentenced to three years in prison amid crackdown on independent media under authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko
The US has been given until September 1 to reduce staff in Minsk to 5 people
Closed-door trial of Maryya Kalesnikava and Maksim Znak begins in Minsk over charges stemming from their calls for protests against official results of last year’s widely discredited presidential election
Protesters across the country demand the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko
The protests in Minsk, Homel, and other cities came after Lukashenko, in power since 1994, was inaugurated on September 23 in a secretive ceremony
Opposition rallies and gatherings in support of would-be candidates have attracted thousands of people across Belarus in recent weeks ahead of August presidential election in which authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is seeking a sixth term
Several hundred people stage protest Saturday in southwestern Belarusian city of Pinsk, calling for scrapping of law imposing tax on jobless people
