Aleh Hruzdzilovich, a correspondent of RFE/RL's Belarus Service, has been seized and held by masked men who broke into his home in Minsk, a human rights organization reports in the latest crackdown on independent media in the authoritarian Eastern European state.
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(WASHINGTON December 23, 2021) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President Jamie Fly rejected today’s announcement that Belarus’ Interior Ministry had added RFE/RL’s Belarus Service to its registry of extremist organizations. Fly also expressed disgust at the detention today of Belarus.
Radio Svaboda, the Belarusian outlet for Radio Free Europe, was labeled extremist more than a year after it covered the country s August 2020 election protests.