BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
27/03/2008
Belarusian KGB Raids Minsk Office Of Polish-Based Radio Racja
Belarusian Committee for State Security (KGB) officers in Minsk on March 27 set a trap for correspondents of the Polish-based Radio Racja, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported. In the morning, officers waited near the apartment rented as the Minsk office of the broadcaster and detained everyone headed toward it. They later searched the apartment. Eugeniusz Wappa, head of the Belarusian Union in Poland, which founded Radio Racja, told "RFE/RL Newsline" that the KGB detained three of the station's correspondents: one in Minsk, one in Brest Oblast, and one in Hrodna Oblast. The correspondent in Vitsebsk notified the broadcaster's office in Bialystok, Poland, that his apartment was broken into. Similar searches were also made of the offices and private apartments of independent journalists in Brest, Hrodna, Vitsebsk, and Homel, including the office of the European Radio For Belarus and the apartments of correspondents of independent Belsat television. The KGB accused the journalists of slandering President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. AM
Source:
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2008/03/3-cee/cee-270308.asp
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