Alerts | Arrest/detention under other laws

Two Belarussian media workers behind bars

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Two journalists, Ales Asiptsou and Alexander Burakou, were detained by police in Belarus and held behind bars for 10 days of administrative arrest for alleged participation in unauthorized protests that they had been covering as part of their journalistic work.

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