Iryna Khalip

Playwright Tom Stoppard has collected this year's Pen Pinter Prize at the British Library in London.

She was detained in Minsk airport for half an hour.

The journalist posted this information on her Facebook account.

The court has lifted Iryna Halip's two-years suspended sentence amid scandal and emotions in courtroom.

Minsk Partizan District Court has vacated the journalist's sentence for taking part in December 19, 2010 'mass riots' in Minsk.

Iryna Halip's sentence is vacated after a 2-year respite. She was sentenced to a prison term for participating in 'mass riots' on December 19, 2010.

Next week, the court will decide whether to release her, to send her to prison, or to keep her in the same status.