Three-time Olympic swimming medalist, Aliaksandra Herasimeniaa, and political activist, Alexander Opeykin, were sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison by a Belarusian court on Monday for their role in protesting Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian regime.

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