A Belarusian court docket has sentenced the members of dissident rock band Nizkiz to 2 years of jail labor after discovering them responsible of “organizing and plotting actions grossly violating public order.” After President Alexander Lukashenko received a sixth time period within the nation’s disputed 2020 election, mass protests broke out. Nizkiz launched the track “Guidelines,” which turned a protest anthem, and filmed the track’s music video on the website of a kind of demonstrations. The federal government additionally positioned the band on its official registry of extremists, successfully banning its music and making its followers targets for prosecution.