Belarus briefly detains EU diplomat

The EU has complained about Belarus’ therapy of one in every of its diplomats in Minsk, Evelina Schulz, the EU mission’s chargée d’affaires, after she was detained by police outdoors a courtroom Thursday. “This unlawful detention of a diplomat is a critical breach of the Vienna Conference on diplomatic relations … and undermines their safety,” an EU spokesman stated. Schulz had been observing a trial, which noticed younger dissidents jailed for years.