US Sanctions Belarusian Police, Official Over Crackdown

(RFE/RL) -- The United States has imposed sanctions on Belarusian police units and a senior security official in Minsk over their violent crackdown on mass demonstrations against the contested reelection of strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 23 denounced what he said were ongoing...