HOMEL, Belarus – A well-known Belarusian human rights lawyer and his assistant have been sentenced to prison terms on charges related to the legal assistance they provided to activists, journalists, and others caught up in an ongoing crackdown by authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime.
Protests in Belarus
RFE/RL: Belarusian human rights lawyer, assistant handed prison terms
Protesters hold placards and traditional Belarusian flags, the symbol of the opposition, as they take part in a demonstration against political repression in front of the Belarusian Embassy to Lithuania, in Vilnius on May 29, 2021.
