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FILE - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting with foreign correspondents, in Minsk, Belarus, on July 6, 2023. Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of “discrediting the Republic of Belarus” and sentenced him to four years in prison, as the country continues its crackdown on dissent. A court in Molodechno, a city in central Belarus, also ordered Aliaksandr Mantsevich, chief editor of the popular Regionalnaya Gazeta newspaper, to pay a fine of 94,000 Belarusian rubles (about $30,000), the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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