Belarusian journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva, 27, and Darya Chultsova, 23, were reporting on an anti-government protest from a central Minsk apartment when police broke into the flat.
The two reporters were arrested on November 15 last year as they were broadcasting clashes between protesters and security enforcement officers, AP news agency reported.
Andreyeva and Chultsova received a two-year jail sentence last month for organising actions rudely violating public order, according to the same report. The crime was committed with the help of mobile phones, video cameras, a tripod and vests with the inscription
Press , according to a state prosecutor statement cited by the opposition group Coordination Council.
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