Belarus, in pursuit of its crackdown on a pro-democracy movement, has ramped up the arrest of journalists while slapping fines on others. This information is from the Committee to Protect Journalists:

Between March 18 and 27, Belarusian authorities detained at least 16 journalists and fined at least three members of the press, according to news reports, and Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) deputy head Barys Haretski, who spoke with CPJ in a phone interview.

Of those journalists, only Poczobut, a political commentator and producer of Nad Niemnem, a TV program that covers issues affecting the ethnic Polish minority in Belarus for Polish public broadcaster TVP Polonia, remains in detention as of today, according to those reports and Haretski.

All of the detained journalists had recently covered protests in their respective cities calling for the resignation of the Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, according to those reports.

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