| After
Belarus Downs Ryanair, Grabs Pratasevich
It Seizes Shota Hard Drive, UN Guterres
Silent
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Video Song
BBC
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UN GATE, May 30 –
Right after dissident blogger
Pratasevich was grabbed off a
Ryan Air flight forced to land
in Belarus, many including the
US spoke.
But for more than
a full day, nothing from
Antonio Guterres, the UN
Secretary General who rarely
takes questions and even had
the Press which asked him
about the mass killings in
Cameroon thrown out of the UN.
Alert here;
new Belarus Blues song here.
Now on May 30,
The chief editor of a popular
Belarusian news site has been
detained on Sunday and his
home searched. Aliaksei Shota,
editor of Hrodna.life, was
detained with police officers
claiming he was being
investigated on suspicion of
extremism. His site focuses on
Grodno, Belarus’s
fifth-largest city.
Authorities said Shota “posted
information products that were
duly recognized as extremist.”
Officers
confiscated computer hard
drives from his home.
Shota had worked with with
Belarus's most popular
internet portal Tut.by, before
it was shut down by the
government this month after 15
employees were arrested. From
Guterres? Silence - he wants
all P5 support for a second
term.
On May 28,
Guterres' UN Press Briefing
Room hosted a press
conference, from which Inner
City Press was banned, in
which the grabbing of
Pratasevich was called fake
news, in response to questions
from state media.
Inner City
Press has asked incoming UNSC
president for June Estonia
for access - and it and the
Free UN Coalition for Access
(FUNCA) will report on all
results.
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