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The arrest of Belarusian journalist and activist Roman Protasevich on Sunday should not have come as a surprise to anyone following events in the former Soviet republic. We at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have been documenting for a year the arrests, imprisonment, beatings and other violations of reporters who were persecuted in that country simply for doing their job.

May 25, 2021 at 07:16AM https://ift.tt/2StoV48 arrest of Belarusian journalist and activist Roman Protasevich on Sunday should not have come as a surprise to anyone following events in the former Soviet republic. We at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have been documenting for a year the arrests, imprisonment, beatings and other violations of reporters who were persecuted in that country simply for doing their job.