Journalists sent to prison

Kyiv: A Belarusian court sentenced two Belarusian journalists from Polandbased TV news channel Belsat to two years’ jail yesterday, after authorities arrested them for live filming protests against President Alexander Lukashenko.

Katsiaryna Andreyeva (27) and Darya Chultsova (23) were detained in an apartment in November from where they had been filming protests about the death of a protester killed several days earlier.

Both women pleaded not guilty after being accused of orchestrating the protests by filming them.