{"id":16248,"date":"2021-01-31T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=156737"},"modified":"2021-01-31T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:07:15","slug":"swiss-journalist-detained-by-police-in-minsk-is-released-after-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/31\/swiss-journalist-detained-by-police-in-minsk-is-released-after-questioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Journalist Detained By Police In Minsk Is Released After Questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FA77C9BB-79F3-4C65-9C22-99B6DB4B82AE_cx0_cy1_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>The Vyasna human rights center in Belarus says police in Minsk have released a Swiss journalist from custody who was detained earlier on January 31 in the Belarusian capital.<\/p>\n<p>The rights group said it received information from the Swiss Embassy in Minsk at about 5 p.m. local time that journalist Luzia Tschirky had been released from a police station.<\/p>\n<p>Tschirky is a correspondent for the Swiss public broadcaster SRF who covers Russia, Belarus, and other former Soviet republics.<\/p>\n<p>In a <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/srfnews\/status\/1355914020423921664\">Twitter statement<\/a><\/strong>, SRF News quoted Tschirky as saying: \u201cMasked men dragged me into a minibus\u201d in central Minsk on the afternoon of January 31, taking her to a police station in the Belarusian capital where she was questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Vyasna says authorities are still holding 28 people who were detained at anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>Since August 9, Belarus has seen almost daily protests against the country&#8217;s official presidential election tally.<\/p>\n<p>Election officials declared Alyaksandr Lukashenka as the winner in a landslide with about 80 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>But opposition leaders and demonstrators say the results were rigged in favor of Lukashenka &#8212; who has been in office since 1994.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">With additional reporting by Interfax and TASS<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/31\/swiss-journalist-detained-by-police-in-minsk-is-released-after-questioning\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vyasna human rights center in Belarus says police in Minsk have released a Swiss journalist from custody who was detained earlier on January 31 in the Belarusian\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,4,23,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}