The journalists of the Russian TV channel “Dozhd”, who were detained in Minsk on Sunday, were released. This was announced by the chief editor of the channel.
“Now they will be taken to Smolensk,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported that three journalists of the Dozhd TV channel should leave Belarus.
Earlier it was reported that searches were carried out in the apartment rented by the journalists of the Russian “Rain”. They did not last long. Nothing was seized.
Prior to that, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the situation with the detention of journalists. According to her, the journalists were detained for lack of accreditation. Their location has already been established. The detainees are provided with consular assistance.
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