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Belarusian authorities connected Monday declared that nan Belarusian work of nan German authorities broadcaster Deutsche Welle is an "extremist" statement and banned each its activities successful nan country.
The declaration intends anyone moving pinch Deutsche Welle producing contented for nan Belarusian work perchance faces a seven-year situation sentence. Anyone who sounds and reposts articles by Deutsche Welle could beryllium recovered blameworthy of an administrative aliases criminal offense.
BELARUS RAIDS TARGET OPPOSITION-RUN 'PEOPLE'S EMBASSIES,' AUTHORITIES CONFIRM
Peter Limbourg, Deutsche Welle's head general, criticized nan decision, saying nan accusations are "unfounded" and do not bespeak nan existent quality of nan Belarusian service's work.
The Belarusian work of German authorities broadcaster Deutsche Welle has been declared an "extremist" statement by Belarusian authorities and its activities are being banned successful nan country. (Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Belarusian authorities person already named 199 organizations arsenic "extremist" and they usage nan explanation to suppress dissent successful nan country. The database includes nan Belarusian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and nan independent Belarusian TV transmission Belsat, broadcasting successful nan Belarusian connection from nan Polish superior Warsaw.
"The business pinch state of reside successful Belarus is nan worst successful Europe," said Andrei Bastunets, nan caput of nan Belarusian Association of Journalists, adding that Belarus was akin to a European "North Korea."
Belarus was rocked by wide protests successful 2020 aft nan country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, declared he had won a sixth word successful office. This ballot was condemned by nan West and nan guidance arsenic fraudulent.
In response, quality authorities organizations said authorities person arrested much than 35,000 people, brutally beating immoderate of them. Many salient guidance figures were arrested and sentenced to agelong situation terms, while others fled abroad.
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Deutsche Welle's Belarusian work is based successful Bonn and nan news statement is financed by nan German government.
According to nan Belarusian Association of Journalists, location are presently 36 journalists down bars successful Belarus.
