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Belarusian freelance journalist Alexander Burakov, who regularly reports for Germany's Deutsche Welle, was freed Tuesday after 20 days in jail where he said he was tortured for covering an "unauthorised event".
Germany has been trenchant in its criticism of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko over his brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters and the recent shock diversion of an international flight to arrest an opposition journalist on board.
Burakov was "freed from prison on Tuesday after 20 days in detention," Deutsche Welle said.
"I am very relieved that our colleague has withstood the unlawful detention more or less unscathed," DW's director general Peter Limbourg said in a statement.
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May 16, 2021
MINSK: Two Belarusian journalists including a freelance reporter for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, were jailed for 20 days on Saturday, and complained of torture while in pre-trial detention, a media group said.
Freelance reporter Alexander Burakov, who works for Deutsche Welle (DW), and Vladimir Laptsevich, a journalist with local online news portal Mogilev Region, were on Wednesday detained outside a courthouse in the eastern city of Mogilev.
Both were there to cover the trial of opposition politician Pavel Sevyarynets and several other figures.
A court in Mogilev on Saturday found Burakov and Laptsevich guilty of repeated participation in "an unauthorised event," said the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
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