Belarus - Authorities seize independent newspaper's entire print run

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the arbitrary seizure three days ago of the entire print run of the independent regional weekly Vitebsky Kuryer . A truck carrying 10,000 copies of the newspaper from its printing plant in the Russian city of Smolensk was stopped by traffic police and escorted to a police station. Officers gave no reason for their action but the newspaper's editor, Vadzim Barshcheuski, said a prosecution for illegal distribution in Belarus was likely to follow. “An act of (...)

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