FILE PHOTO: Law enforcement officers detain a participant of a protest after the Belarusian election commission refused to register Viktor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo as candidates for the upcoming presidential election in Minsk, Belarus July 14, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday threatened to expel foreign journalists whom he accused of inciting protests against him ahead of an August election, urging them to focus on the harvest instead.
The 65-year-old former Soviet collective farm boss faces the biggest challenge in years to his iron-fisted rule of the eastern European country, as anger swells over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the economy and human rights.
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