Aleh Hruzdzilovich detained
On September 14, Aleh Hruzdzilovich, a veteran Minsk-based correspondent for RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, was detained and then released by police while attempting to cover a public vigil to mourn a young man who died in jail under suspicious circumstances. In an effort to disrupt the gathering and punish those who sought to report on it, Hruzdzilovich was detained along with two other independent newspaper journalists and approximately 18 protesters.