The Belarusian opposition leader told Euronews the regime in Minsk is 'hiding its domestic crisis' behind military drills with Russia and the threat to Ukraine.
Mikalay Autukhovich s sentence comes just days after another imprisoned activist, Ales Bialiatski, was one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
The 9 August 2020 elections believed to have been rigged by strongman President Alexander Lukashenko sparked unprecedented protests, leading to a crackdown against opponents of the regime and tens of thousands of arrests.