The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern on Tuesday over the sentencing of freelance journalist Aleh Supruniuk to three years in prison by a Belarusian court.

CPJ called for Supruniuk’s immediate release, along with all other journalists unjustly detained in Belarus. Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator, stated, “The sentencing of journalist Aleh Supruniuk to three years in prison, six months after he went missing in his hometown, is yet another example of the Belarusian authorities’ covert attacks of the press”.

Supruniuk, a reporter for the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), was convicted of participating in an “extremist group” and writing at least 43 articles for the organization, which the government has labeled as

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