Published on 12:00 AM, June 03, 2021

‘Tortured’ Belarus journalist freed from prison: DW

Afp, Berlin

Belarusian freelance journalist Alexander Burakov, who regularly reports for Germany's Deutsche Welle, was freed Tuesday after 20 days in jail where he said he was tortured for covering an "unauthorised event".

Germany has been trenchant in its criticism of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko over his brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters and the recent shock diversion of an international flight to arrest an opposition journalist on board.

Burakov was "freed from prison on Tuesday after 20 days in detention," Deutsche Welle said.

"I am very relieved that our colleague has withstood the unlawful detention more or less unscathed," DW's director general Peter Limbourg said in a statement.

‘Tortured’ Belarus journalist freed from prison: DW

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