A court in Minsk has sentenced a Latvian citizen, Dmitrijs Mihailovs, who was convicted of calling for sanctions against Belarus and insulting authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka, to four years in prison. Mihailovs was detained on March 1 and later included on Belarus's list of people involved in "terrorist activities." Police found social-media messages on his phone that condemned Lukashenka's regime, which has brutally cracked down on dissent since protests over a disputed election in August 2020 handed him a sixth term. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Belarus Service, click here.
