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Belarus police hold activist over blasts-lawyer

Belarus police arrested an activist on Thursday opposed to President Alexander Lukashenko — accused by the West of crushing fundamental rights — in connection with explosions in a provincial town, a lawyer said. Pavel Krosovsky of the “Young Front” group was detained east of the capital Minsk on suspicion of involvement in two blasts which injured more than 40 people last year in Vitebsk, near the Russian border, Pavel Sapelko, a human rights lawyer, said. Full Story