Now I remember why I don’t read the Independent very often:

McDonald’s linked to crackdown in Belarus
independent.co.uk

McDonald’s has been accused of turning a blind eye to gross human rights violations in Belarus after evidence from the global fast-food chain was used by prosecutors in the trials of pro-democracy activists.

Scores of anti-government protesters, including five former presidential candidates who ran against strongman Alexander Lukashenko last year, are being hauled before courts in one of the worst crackdowns in the quasi-Soviet state in recent years.
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Copies of indictments obtained by The Independent show that among the charges is the allegation that protesters caused 8.4m roubles (1,680) of damage to a McDonald’s branch which had to close. Campaigners say the figure must have been provided by McDonald’s which has kept silent on the crackdown.