Belarusian court orders opposition leader jailed for 10 days; more mass protests planned

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Despite most major opposition figures being in jail or in exile, President Alexander Lukashenko has so far failed to put down protests against his 26-year rule more than two weeks after an election his opponents say was rigged

Opposition supporters rally to protest against disputed presidential elections results, in Minsk, on Aug. 24, 2020.A Belarusian court ordered an opposition leader jailed for 10 days on Tuesday as the government pursued a crackdown on the few figures still at large, with more mass demonstrations planned against President Alexander Lukashenko.

Another council member, Olga Kovalkova, appeared at a separate court after spending a night in jail. Kovalkova is the main representative of opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya still in Belarus. The council includes dozens of figures representing broad swathes of society, among them author Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been summoned for questioning on Wednesday.

Belarus is the closest ally to Russia of all former Soviet republics, and Lukashenko’s fate is widely seen as in the hands of the Kremlin, which must decide whether to stick with him as his authority has ebbed.

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