Committee to Protect Journalists demands to release Poczobut and Svyardlou
The international organization also demands to investigate threats against journalist Iryna Khalip.
The
appeal has been
signed by deputy director of the international organization "Committee to
Protect Journalists" Robert Mahoney. He reminds
that Andrzej Poczobut was arrested under accusation of slander against the
Belarusian leader, while journalist of Euroradio Pavel Svyardlou was accused of
swearing in public, and detained.
"Not content with detaining
journalists for what they write, Belarus is now arresting them for what they
say," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. "This charge of using
'coarse language' is clearly bogus. The authorities should release Pavel
Svyardlou immediately and unconditionally", — says Robert Mahoney.
