Belarus: Journalists’ Homes Raided
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/world/europe/28wbriefs-JOURNALISTSH_BRF.html
March 28, 2008
World Briefing | Europe
Belarus: Journalists’ Homes Raided
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ [Belarus] [former USSR] [one of 4 former republics in which USSR’s nukes dispersed] [now Russia playing hardball with Chechnya and other non-Russian areas in Caucasus] [Belarus is one of the rare former republics that maintains old CW relations with West] [use psci 350?] [******]
Security forces raided the apartments of journalists from independent and foreign news media, days after the police broke up an opposition rally in the capital, Minsk. [***] Officers questioned at least 16 journalists, possibly in connection with a 2006 cartoon video that was deemed offensive to President Aleksandr Lukashenko, [goodness, president Lukashenko took offense] [***] said the Belarus Association of Journalists. Belarus, which Western diplomats call Europe’s last dictatorship, has received heavy criticism for its human rights record.
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/world/europe/28wbriefs-JOURNALISTSH_BRF.html
March 28, 2008
World Briefing | Europe
Belarus: Journalists’ Homes Raided
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ [Belarus] [former USSR] [one of 4 former republics in which USSR’s nukes dispersed] [now Russia playing hardball with Chechnya and other non-Russian areas in Caucasus] [Belarus is one of the rare former republics that maintains old CW relations with West] [use psci 350?] [******]
Security forces raided the apartments of journalists from independent and foreign news media, days after the police broke up an opposition rally in the capital, Minsk. [***] Officers questioned at least 16 journalists, possibly in connection with a 2006 cartoon video that was deemed offensive to President Aleksandr Lukashenko, [goodness, president Lukashenko took offense] [***] said the Belarus Association of Journalists. Belarus, which Western diplomats call Europe’s last dictatorship, has received heavy criticism for its human rights record.
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company