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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10379
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/belarus

Ashton speaks out against “political” sentencing

Brussels, 16/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - The EU has spoken out strongly against the sentence of five years' imprisonment handed down on Saturday 14 May to Belarusian political opponent Andreï Sannikov, the main rival in the 2010 presidential elections of the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. This sentence, which was meted out by the court of Partizansky, is politically motivated, like a number of other particularly harsh sentences handed down in recent days by other courts against...

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