Ala Sharko

According to our information, Yuliya Slutskaya, the founder of Press Club Belarus, its directors Syarhei Alsheuski and Ala Sharko, cameraman Pyotr Slutski have been released from pre-trial detention centre Nr 1 in Minsk.

The group of colleagues will have to spend at least two more months behind bars, Alyaksandra Slutskaya, a daughter of the imprisoned Press Club Belarus founder, said on Friday morning.

On Tuesday, Yuliya Slutskaya, the founder of the Press Club Belarus media organisation, has been detained at the airport upon her arrival in Minsk and taken to the Department of Financial Investigations.