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The EU has complained about Belarus’ treatment of one of its diplomats in Minsk, Evelina Schulz, the EU mission’s chargée d’affaires, after she was detained by police outside a courtroom Thursday. “This illegal detention of a diplomat is a serious breach of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations … and undermines their security,” an EU spokesman said. Schulz had been observing a trial, which saw young dissidents jailed for years.
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