{"id":2315,"date":"2020-12-15T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139584"},"modified":"2020-12-15T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:47:50","slug":"chairman-of-belarusian-journalists-association-summoned-for-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/15\/chairman-of-belarusian-journalists-association-summoned-for-questioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman Of Belarusian Journalists&#8217; Association Summoned For Questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2AEE7FE0-3AE6-483E-AB73-478D2C23A70E_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Police in Minsk have summoned the chairman of the Belarusian Journalists&#8217; Association (BAZh) for questioning in a probe related to activities &#8220;directed at causing damage to the national security&#8221; of the country.<\/p>\n<p>BAZh said on December 15 that Andrey Bastunets was ordered during a phone call <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/baj.by\/be\/content\/starshynyu-bazh-vyklikayuc-na-dopyt-pa-sprave-ab-shkodze-nacyyanalnay-byaspecy\">to visit the Central Office of the Investigative Committee<\/a><\/strong> in Minsk on December 16.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a report listing Belarus among countries where the number of imprisoned journalists rose significantly in recent months amid mass protests after incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed victory in a disputed presidential election in August.<br \/>.<br \/>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 the media accreditations of several foreign media outlets 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\/15\/chairman-of-belarusian-journalists-association-summoned-for-questioning\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Minsk have summoned the chairman of the Belarusian Journalists\u2019 Association (BAZh) for questioning in a probe related to activities \u201cdirected at causing damage to the national\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,4,23,79,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315"}],"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=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}