{"id":2005,"date":"2020-12-12T01:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=138382"},"modified":"2020-12-12T01:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T01:15:05","slug":"current-time-journalist-held-at-minsk-airport-belongings-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/12\/current-time-journalist-held-at-minsk-airport-belongings-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Time Journalist Held At Minsk Airport, Belongings Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/D16617D6-71D3-42A6-9E85-2A5A6B49824C_cx0_cy18_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Belarusian security agents have seized the computer and documents of a journalist at Minsk&#8217;s airport after briefly holding him upon arrival from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Vasyukovich, a correspondent for Current Time, the Russian-language network led by RFE\/RL in cooperation with VOA, <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.currenttime.tv\/a\/zaderzhan-roman-vasyukovich-korrespondent-nv\/30996508.html\">said<\/a><\/strong> some of his possessions were seized at the airport without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>After being held for about an hour, Vasyukovich said he was released but his laptop was seized for examination of &#8220;extremist&#8221; content.<\/p>\n<p>Vasyukovich has been covering the near-daily protests in Belarus against strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka in the wake of August&#8217;s disputed presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces have violently cracked down on the protest movement, with more than 27,000 detentions, according to the United Nations. There have also been credible reports of torture and ill-treatment, and several people have died.<\/p>\n<p>Since August, at least 373 journalists have been arrested, six of whom are currently detained, the UN said earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry revoked media accreditation from Current Time and other foreign media in an attempt to stifle reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/12\/current-time-journalist-held-at-minsk-airport-belongings-seized\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian security agents have seized the computer and documents of a journalist at Minsk\u2019s airport after briefly holding him upon arrival from Ukraine. Roman Vasyukovich, a correspondent for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,4,79,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"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=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}