FILE PHOTO: Participants stage a performance in support of Belarusian prisoner Stepan Latypov during a rally demanding the release of all underage activists, who were detained during recent anti-government protests in Belarus, as they gather in central Kyiv, Ukraine June 1, 2021. Stepan Latypov, who was arrested during a security crackdown on mass protests following a contested Belarusian presidential election in 2020, tried to cut his own throat during a court hearing in the capital Minsk. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
(Reuters) - A Belarusian man who tried to cut his own throat during a court hearing in June was sentenced to 8-1/2 years in prison after his trial resumed on Monday, the human rights group Viasna-96 and Belarusian media reported.
Stepan Latypov, 41, was arrested last September during an intensifying crackdown on protests by security forces loyal to President Alexander Lukashenko after a contested election.
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