Belarus court gives opposition activists lengthy sentences
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A court in Belarus on Monday sentenced key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova -- who led mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko last year - to 11 years in prison on national security charges. Kolesnikova's lawyer Maxim Znak was also handed a 10-year prison sentence, according to the press service of onetime presidential hopeful Viktor Babaryko, whose campaign Kolesnikova managed. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kiev.