Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has criticised Minsk's record of violating human rights, including its treatment of political prisoners.
Aleksander Lukashenko, the Belarusian strongman, has claimed that it was thanks to his decision that a Polish minority leader was released in March after a year spent in prison and moved to house arrest.
The president of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB), Andżelika Borys, and the head of the local branch office in the western city of Lida, Irena Biernacka, were charged in Minsk on Friday with "incitement to hatred," the Znadniemna.pl portal has announced.
Poland’s Sejm (lower house) has called on the Belarusian authorities to release Belsat TV journalists and other political prisoners.
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