Opposition leaders on trial in Belarus

Newshour - En podcast af BBC World Service

Two leading Belarusian opposition figures have gone on trial behind closed doors at a court in Minsk. Protest organiser Maria Kolesnikova and opposition lawyer Maxim Znak have been charged with incitement to undermine national security. Also in the programme: Protests in Beirut a year on from a large explosion and Czech women to be compensated after being forcibly sterilised. (Picture: Belarus opposition politician Maria Kolesnikova. Credit: EPA/Ramil Nasibulin)

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