27/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - Ashton criticises “politically motivated sentences”. The EU high representative for foreign affairs, Catherine Ashton, has criticised the “very harsh sentences” delivered by the Belarusian justice system against two opposition members running as candidates for the presidential elections in December 2010, Mikalay Statkevich and Dzmitry Uss. “These politically motivated sentences are yet another step backwards as regards Belarus' respect for human rights,...