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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the portraits of journalists who are arbitrarily detained in Belarus, where media personnel have been hounded by the regime ever since the disputed election held on 9 August 2020 that gave Alexander Lukashenko another term as president.
As 23 May marks the anniversary of the hijacking of a plane by Alexander Lukashenko's regime to arrest journalist Raman Pratasevich, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reminds the world that 27 media professionals are locked up in Belarusian prisons and urges for their release.