The Investigative Committee of Belarus detained five more journalists in the case of the theft of news from the state news agency BELTA, RFE / RL reported..

According to the publication, for the questioning in the UK, four journalists of the real estate publication Realt. by, including editor-in-chief Vladislav Kuletsky. Also, the investigators took the equipment of these employees from the office.

In addition, according to journalist Olga Shestakova, together with his wife, journalist Aleksei Zhukov, formerly head of the magazine "Belarusian Agriculture". The detention of Zhukov and his wife was also reported by the RFRM.

Officially new detentions of journalists in the case of BELTA were not reported.

On August 7, the Belarusian SC detained journalists of TUT Internet publications. BY and BelaPAN news agencies on suspicion of unauthorized access to the paid news line of the news agency BELTA. According to Radio Liberty, nine journalists were detained, later four were released.

In the office of TUT. BY August 7 searches began which continued the next day. Also, the SC searched the apartments of journalists detained in the case of BELTA.

On August 8, a Belarusian correspondent for Deutsche Welle, Pavel Bykovsky, told about the search in connection with this case. His detention was not reported.

Employees of the Investigative Committee of Belarus conduct a search in the apartment of the correspondent of the Russian edition of Deutsche Welle Pavlyuk Bykovsky. "The Investigative Committee came to me," the journalist wrote in Facebookhttps: // t. co / aMRghRlpOk pic. twitter. com / TBTL5V2gAT - DW (in Russian) (@dw_russian) August 8, 2018.