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Deutsche Welle correspondent Nicholas Connolly detained in Minsk

Since yesterday, all journalists of foreign media in Belarus have been deprived of the right to work until the Foreign Ministry approves their new accreditation applications.

On September 29, Belarusian Information Minister Ihar Lutski ordered to suspend TUT.BY’s status of an online media outlet for the period of three months starting October, 1.

On Friday evening, four policemen have detained Current Time journalists in the Minsk Hotel where they are staying in the run-up to the presidential election.

On May 6, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry revoked the accreditation of Alexei Kruchinin, a correspondent of Russia’s state-owned Channel 1, and his cameraman.