Belarus detains around 20 journalists preparing to cover protest: witness

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Belarusian police detained around 20 journalists preparing to cover a protest in central Minsk on Thursday and confiscated their telephones and identity documents.

MINSK — Belarusian police detained around 20 journalists preparing to cover a protest in central Minsk on Thursday and confiscated their telephones and identity documents, a Reuters witness said.

The Interior Ministry later said the journalists had been driven to a police station for officers to check they had valid accreditaton allowing them to work as journalists. It said all those with official accreditation would be released. It denied the journalists had been detained.have followed a presidential election on Aug. 9 that Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko's opponents say was rigged.

The journalists had planned to cover a demonstration in which hundreds of anti-government protesters marched along a central Minsk street on Thursday evening.

 

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This is why Vote him out 2020 is necessary

Please don’t give trump any more bad ideas. He’ll be doing this next (rounding up journalists) Ask Katy Tur how that feels! PutinsPuppet Dictator

But trump is the authoritarian 🤣🤣🤣

This will come to America one day very soon. The Harris/Biden agenda is to control media and what America see's. We have discovered this week just how much work has been done the past 4 yrs without Democrats or media's help. Media has hidden many truths & are now being exposed.

The US is not extending the VISA'S of about 70 foreign journalists and returning them to their countries. Ask yourself why the US doesn't want them here.

Sad, for a few seconds I thought this was the US.

The orange dictator is getting ideas

COMING SOON TO A DEMOCRACY NEAR YOU..

And what has President Trump said?

N I C E A S S

I hope Trump wasn’t watching.

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