INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Belarus on Wednesday sentenced a young journalist who covered protests against President Alexander Lukashenko to an additional eight years
2020 with fellow journalist Daria Chultsova while filming one of the anti-government rallies that swept Belarus that year."Our colleague
transferred from the prison colony where she was held in Gomel, southeastern Belarus, and brought to a pre-trial detention center in
treason charges solely for her fearless work as a journalist."She and "all other critics of the Belarusian authorities detained solely for
peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression must be immediately and unconditionally released and all charges against them
must be dropped."Lukashenko's regime has orchestrated a brutal crackdown on any pockets of dissent after unprecedented protests swept
