Belarus court jails journalist for four years for criticising president

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko at the Cop29 UN Climate Summit in Azerbaijan in November (Rafiq Maqbool/AP)

A Belarusian journalist has been sentenced to four years in prison for her critical reports chronicling a sweeping crackdown on dissent launched by the country’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

The Minsk City Court convicted Volha Radzivonava on Tuesday on charges of “insulting the president” and “discrediting Belarus” and sentenced her to four years in prison.