Repression

Dmitry Semchenko, the former head of the presidential media pool in Belarus, was sentenced to three years in prison for posts on social networks criticizing the harsh actions of the security forces to disperse the protesters.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has publicly stated for the second time that there is allegedly not a single political prisoner in the republic.

The head of the Makaryevsky district of the Kostroma region, Yuri Metelkin, wrote complaints to law enforcement agencies about his voters, accusing them of "extremism" and "genocide of officials".