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Some 50 journalists, most of whom were later released without any protocol, were detained during protests in Minsk on Thursday night, the Belarusian Journalists Association said. Although most of the media were released, the police confiscated their work equipment.
The report was updated with the latest figures for journalists arrested.
In all, “about 50 journalists” were detained at Freedom Square and Independence Square, and “virtually all were released after a document check,” the association’s website reported.
At the time, the Viasna human rights center said in an updated report on Friday that it would have information on 261 detainees, including dozens of journalists.
According to the Belarusian Journalists Association, protocols were drawn up on participation in an unauthorized campaign for four people: Kaciaryna Andrejeva, Maksim Kalitouskis, Aliaksandr Vasilyovich, Andrei Yaroshevich.
“These journalists refused to hand over their smartphones to the militia officers for inspection. They were placed in pre-trial detention,” said the Belarusian Journalists Association.
The journalists were forced to delete photos from their personal mobile phones. Those who refused to show the material on the phones were sent to a separate room and were not released, Belsat reported. Finally, the police confiscated journalists’ cameras, laptops, memory cards and telephones.
Swedish photographer and World Press Photo winner Paul Hansen has been deported from Belarus. He has been expelled from Belarus for five years.
Aliaksandra Bahuslauskaya, a Russian-language journalist for Deutsche Welle, was arrested for “working without accreditation”, but Ms. Bahuslauskaya said she had been accredited to work by the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Tacian Karavenkava, a journalist for the independent news agency BelaPAN, who suffered from severe blood pressure, was taken out of the district’s interior department in an ambulance.
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