A court in Belarus has sentenced a man to two years in prison for making online comments about the country's authoritarian ruler, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and his regime. The central district court in Minsk sentenced Aleh Yushkevich, 36, on February 9 after convicting him of insulting Lukashenka and the tightly controlled former Soviet nation’s authorities. The court also ordered Yushkevich to pay a fine of 7,400 rubles ($3,000). To read the original story by RFE/RL's Belarus Service, click here.
