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Belarus facing fresh sanctions

29/05/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Belarus facing fresh sanctions

Country facing mounting pressure over journalist arrest

Nearly a week after journalist Roman Protasevich was arrested in Minsk, international pressure is continuing to mount on Belarus. European leaders began the week by announcing sanctions, the country is now facing fresh sanctions from the US.

Also in the programme; President Biden announces his budget proposal for next year and a ‘lost library’ of manuscripts belonging to the Bronte family is discovered and put up for auction.

Joining Julian Worricker on the programme is Catherine Fieschi, a political scientist and founder and executive director of the Counterpoint political research and advisory organisation and Toby Cadman, Barrister and co-Founder of Guernica 37, a specialist barrister's chambers in the field of international human rights.

(Photo: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a speech in Minsk, Belarus. Credit: Press Service of the President of the Republic of Belarus/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT/File Photo)

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