BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

28/03/2008

Belarus: Journalists' Homes Raided

By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ

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, said the Belarus Association of Journalists. Belarus, which Western diplomats call Europe's last dictatorship, has received heavy criticism for its human rights record.

Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/world/europe/28wbriefs-JOURNALISTSH_BRF.html

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