CORRECTED - Mother asks Europe to save son from Belarus execution

24 January 2012, 2:44 pm

(Corrects paragraphs 21-22 to make clear he told the court he had agreed to testify, not confess) BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Lyubov Kovalyova, a Belarussian receptionist, was listening to the radio at work in April when she heard that her son had confessed to helping plan a terrorist attack - a bomb in a metro station in the capital Minsk which killed 15 people. Eight months later, after a two-month ...... Read More »

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