The United States and European Union imposed new sanctions against Belarus in response to the country's crackdown on protests over a December presidential election widely believed to be fraudulent.
Emanuel Zeltser, a New York-based anti-money laundering attorney, was released from a Belarusian prison Tuesday after serving nearly a third of a three-year sentence for industrial espionage, according to media reports.
Belarusian authorities arrested Emanuel Zeltser, a Russia-born lawyer who practices in New York, on March 12, claiming he had entered the country with forged documents relating to a lawsuit over the disputed inheritance of Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili.
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