High-profile trials in Belarus

A 38-year-old businessman stabbed his wife and small children with a knife and then caused a road accident killing two people last year.

The publisher was given a 5 million rubles fine and ordered to pay the state 961 million rubles of profit.

The store is now re-registered to another person. Logvinau plans to publish books, rather than sell them.

Minsk regional court made this decision on July 16.

The Investigation Committee of Belarus opens a criminal case against Katsiaryna Sadousakaya, 68 for allegedly insulting President Lukashenka.

A Belarus court finds former deputy Prosecutor General Aliaksandr Arhipau guilty of office abuse and bribery.

The former director of a confectionery factory is standing trial in a Minsk's district court on charges of embezzlement and infringement on privacy.

The hearing will begin at Minsk's Pershamaiski District Court.

Pavel Selyun was sentenced to capital punishment by Hrodna Regional Court last June of violating four articles in the Penal Code of Belarus.