After the verdict, Høiby’s defence lawyer Petar Sekulic again asked the court for his release, however the court rejected the plea late on Monday, ruling that there was a risk that he might contact a woman he was convicted of assaulting, and who he had broken a restraining order to see in the past.
After an election win which has been widely criticised as illegitimate, Alexander Lukashenko faced questions from the BBC’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.
The head of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohamad Afif, was one of the group’s few remaining public faces.
Local activists and residents describe the early morning attack on worshippers.