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About 50 journalists detained, 4 to stand trial, 1 deported
On August 27, the police detained the journalists covering events on Freedom and Independence Square in Minsk.
They were taken to Kastrychnitski police department for checking their ids. Altogether, about 50 journalists were detained. The police released most of them after checking their documents. However, four journalists refused to give their smartphones to police for a check-up. Therefore, the police drew up reports with charges of participation in an unauthorized mass action. Katsiaryna Andreyeva, Maksim Harchanok, Aliaksandr Vasiukovich, and Andrei Yarashevich were left in custody until trial.
Swedish journalist Paul Hansen will be deported. Swedish ambassador to Belarus Christina Johannesson came to the Kastrychnitski police station where the journalists were kept. Paul Hansen is to leave Belarus tomorrow. He is banned
from travelling to Belarus for 5 years.
BelaPAN journalist Tatsiana Karavenkova was taken to hospital by an ambulance.
August 27, 2020
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August 25, 2020
Journalists Union of Athens message of solidarity to BAJ
August 19, 2020
Journalist Yauhen Nikalayevich: girls were beaten, humiliated, and stripped naked
August 18, 2020
Hospitalized Belarusian journalist Alena Scharbinskaya tells of beatings inside Minsk detention center
August 18, 2020
Currently there are 2 journalists in custody
August 17, 2020
Belsat journalist in hospital after three days at Akrestsina. She was beaten by a wardress
Now the journalist is looking for cellmates who may also have suffered from the wardress who beat the girls.
August 16, 2020
JOINT STATEMENT BY MEP Robert BIEDROŃ and MEP Petras AUŠTREVIČIUSOn
August 14, 2020
Repression targets journalists in Belarus: international community must respond
August 13, 2020
IFJ General Secretary, Anthony Bellanger called Belarusian authorities stop crackdown media
August 13, 2020
Two journalists are on hunger strike against illegal detention in Mahiliou prison
August 13, 2020
Detentions of journalists in Belarus, August 12
On August 12, Belarusians continued to protest against the rigged election results. There was less police brutality on the streets, however, some journalists were detained.
August 13, 2020
Journalists detained and beaten intentionally Stop the violence! LIST
August 12, 2020
Journalist was wounded by a rubber bullet in Minsk
August 10, 2020
Journalists of the Russian TV channel “Dozhd” Vladimir Romensky, Vasily Poklonsky and cameraman Nikolai Antipov were brutally detained in Minsk
Telegram channel Nexta Live publishes a video of the detention of journalists. The video shows how people in civilian clothes and masks put them on the road and then take them away in an unknown way .
August 09, 2020
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