Police arrests 13 journalists in Belarus

List of arrested journalists:

Minsk

RFE/RL jour­nal­ists Ali­ak­san­dra Dynko and Andrei Rabchyk were arrest­ed when broad­cast­ing live.

Jour­nal­ist Iry­na Ara­houskaya was arrest­ed and spent about 1.5 hours in the police sta­tion. Lat­er she was released.

Reuters reporter Uladz­imir Kostsin . The police says they detained them ’ »to ver­i­fy their iden­ti­ty’.

Euro­ra­dio jour­nal­ists were also arrest­ed. Maria Vaitovich and Art­siom May­orau were arrest­ed dur­ing dis­per­sion of the protest. They did not vio­late any rules and were just doing their job.

The police arrest­ed TUT.BY jour­nal­ist Vadz­im Zamirous­ki and Anas­ta­sia Zanko of Onliner.by.

Mahiliou:

The police arrest­ed TUT.BY jour­nal­ist Anzha­li­ka Vasileuskaya and free­lancer Ales Sobaleu.

Babruisk:

Reporter Ale­sia Latsin­skaya was arrest­ed.  Here is how she describes what hap­pened: «The police put me into a pad­dy wag­on, looked through my belong­ings, stripped me naked, and even took the laces of my shoes (as far as I under­stand, men were not stripped of cloth­ing, just me).»

Dzya­nis Nosau, a jour­nal­ist of Vech­erny Bobruisk, was detained also.

In the evening of June 19 all this arrest­ed jour­nal­ists were released with­out charges.

But in Bobruisk jour­nal­ist Siarhei Latsin­s­ki was placed in a deten­tion cen­ter until Mon­day. Accord­ing to the Admin­is­tra­tive Code, he accused of par­tic­i­pat­ing in an unau­tho­rized mass event, the court hear­ing is sched­uled for Mon­day.

BAJ protests against police block­ing jour­nal­ists from doing their job.