Minsk police detain Ukrainian reporter, he is facing extradition
Ukrainian journalist Vitali Sizov was detained in Minsk last night, Radio Liberty reports. He arrived in Belarus with the camera crew of Donets Basin Civil Television. Sizov was supposed to cover the negotiations of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on February 1. He had received accreditation in the Belarusian MFA.
The police entered Sizov’s hotel room at about 2 a.m. and took him to Minsk Central Department of the Interior. He was let off only at about 6 a.m., the journalist wrote on Facebook.
He has to leave Belarus within 24 hours because he is on Russia’s ‘black list’, the police explained. Belarus and Russia are members of the Union State which means that Sizov cannot stay in Belarus.
