
The journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, Gennady Mozheiko in Minsk, officially charged under two articles of the Lukashenkovsky Criminal Code: “Fruitment of social hostility or growth” and “Insulting a representative of power”. Of course, nothing good awaits him, and indeed it is not known what is with him now: a journalist in a pre -trial detention center, in the cell “with a quarantine in the coronavirus” , nor relatives or lawyers can visit him.
When necessary, Lukashenko recalls the pandemic, when it is not necessary-he forgets, conducting some other parade . However, this, of course, will not surprise us.
Let me remind you briefly what the crime is Mozheiko. After a shootout in Minsk happened in the apartment, which the special forces from the KGB came to storm, and the IT company employee Andrei Zeltser shot one of the special forces (and died), Mozheiko published an article about the incident on the Belorussian Komsomolskaya Pravda. In the text there was a commentary to the familiar potion, who did not seek to put up the dead monster. The editors quickly realized that there was a monstrous mistake: in their original form, the text was available for three minutes. Then he was edited, then completely removed.
Late, it did not help.
They grabbed Mozheiko, and at first everything looked so that they grabbed in Moscow (there was nothing to be surprised, there were precedents, recall the story of the literary critic Alexander Fedeta, who was also in a pre -trial detention center in Belarus and already admitted that he was preparing a coup and gathered on jeeps with machine guns to storm the residence of Lukashenko). Then they realized - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus reported that they were detained by Mozheiko in Minsk, from where he was preparing to fly to Russia, then to hide in the Third Country.
In a couple of days, in addition, even more than a hundred people were arrested , who left the wrong comments on the ill -fated shootout on social networks. But with Mozheiko, after all, a special case is a special case - he is a citizen of Belarus, but at the same time - an employee of the Russian publication. “Komsomolskaya Pravda” is a newspaper extremely loyal, in love with a girl’s passion in the Russian government. It would seem - here is the field for you, lovers to protect freedom of speech abroad.
Moreover, just shortly before the special operation to capture Mozheiko, there was a story with Russia Today - YouTube blocked two German -language channels of the subordinates of Margarita Simonyan. According to the service administration - for fakes about coronavirus. According to the official Russian version - for love for truth, of course. But this is not important, it is important what began here: both Simonyan herself and the official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, and other fighters for freedom of speech thunder and lightning, threatened to block YouTube, wrote letters almost to God for the sky with a demand to take measures.
They did not blocked, however, nothing, thanks, but they were prompted noble.
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