Alexander Burakov was arrested in the town of Mogilyov while on an editorial assignment for DW's Russian service. During his sentencing, he told the court that he was mishandled in the detention facility.
May 15, 2021 - 7:30 AM
MOSCOW (AP) â German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle says one of its freelance correspondents has been sentenced to 20 days in jail in Belarus.
DW said in a statement that Alexander Burakov was sentenced Saturday for taking part in an âunauthorized event.â It said Burakov was arrested on Wednesday while waiting with other journalists for access to the trial of six people charged with mass unrest.
Belarus has launched widespread detentions and trials in connection with the wave of protests that arose last year against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who took office for a sixth term after an August election that opposition figures said was rigged.
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The German Foreign Ministry Is Trying to Clarify the Circumstances of the Detention of Belarusian Journalist Burakov
OREANDA-NEWS. The German Foreign Ministry is investigating the circumstances of the detention of independent journalists in Belarus Alexander Burakov, who cooperates with the media company «Deutsche Welle», and the initiation of a case against them under the article on violation of the order of the action. This was announced on Friday, May 14, by the official representative of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Christofer Burger, in response to a question from a DW correspondent.
According to him, the German Foreign Ministry is trying to clarify the circumstances of the case through the German Embassy in Minsk. In connection with the detention of Alexander Burakov and Vladimir Laptsevich in Mogilev and their declaration of a hunger strike, the representative of the German Foreign Ministry reiterated Berlin s principled position regarding the work of journalis