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Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has been beaten and tortured in jail in Belarus, the country’s leading opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has claimed.
Protasevich, 26, was detained on May 23 after his Ryanair flight was forced into an emergency landing in Minsk in an incident which caused global uproar.
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Ms Tsikhanouskaya said a lawyer had visited Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega in jail.
The lawyer said Protasevich was fine “but it’s doubtful, because for sure he was tortured, for sure he was beaten,” Ms Tsikhanouskaya said.
Protasevich’s family previously said the blogger appeared to have been beaten when he spoke in a video released by Belarusian authorities.
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Countries including Germany and Canada are hoping for an agreement at the Cop26 climate summit to scrap polluting lorries in favour of electric trucks.
The boom in online shopping during the pandemic has led to concerns that increased emissions from heavy-duty lorries will foil attempts to keep global warming below 2°C.
With Cop26 drawing closer, discussions are under way about a pact to be presented to world leaders in Glasgow in November which would make zero-emission trucks the norm by 2050.
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“The e-commerce boom brought on by the Covid pandemic has likely permanently changed our transport needs,” said Cristiano Facanha, the global director of a project called Drive to Zero which backs the push for a deal.