This app will self-destruct: How Belarusian hackers created an alternative Telegram for activists
The hacktivist group Cyber Partisans have developed a secure version of Telegram to protect political activists.
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The hacktivist group Cyber Partisans have developed a secure version of Telegram to protect political activists.
A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Sofia Sapega, the girlfriend of a dissident detained after their commercial flight was forced to land in Belarus last year, to six years in prison for inciting social hatred, the Vyasna rights group said.
Sofia Sapega faces up to six years in jail if convicted on seven criminal charges that include ‘inciting social hatred’.
The charges announced by the US Department of Justice escalate the global uproar over the May 23, 2021, forced landing in Minsk of the Ryanair flight and detention of the journalist Roman Protasevich and his Russian girlfriend
The 18-year prison sentence handed down to Syarhey Tsikhanouski is one of the longest ever issued by a Belarusian court. He was one of six people hit with harsh sentences that sparked outrage inside and outside of Belarus.