Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday freed 23 political prisoners, state media reported, the latest mass pardoning ahead of next week's presidential election.
A Polish court has convicted a man of raping, robbing and killing a Belarusian woman and handed him a life sentence in prison with a requirement for therapy.
Belarus consistently and strongly condemned, including in the United Nations, the unfair and unjustified U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.