Belarussian and foreign journalists are beaten up.

During the suppress of the demonstration against the falsifications in Minsk in the evening on December 19 various journalists where beaten up.

Injured in different scale where the journalists: Natalia Radina (charter97.org), Ruslan Gorbachev (gazeta.by), Viktor Tolochko (BelTA), Ales Piletsky («Nasha Niva»), John Hill (The New York Times)

Irina Khalip, correspondent of the Russian newspaper «Novaya Gazeta», wife of the candidate to presidency in Belarus Andrei Sannikov, is detained.

«The special forces where beating us at heads. If someone woudn't have taken me away from their boots - they would have definitely killed me. It seems I have concussion, but I've got to continue working», told BelaPAN the editor of charter97.org Natalia Radina.

There is a report that several cameramen from the Russia Today TV Channel Anton Kharchenko and Viktor Filiaev, photographer Andrey Lenkevich are injured. Correspondents of the web-portal tut.by Konstantin Lashkevich and photocorrespondent of «BelGazeta» Vadim Zamirovsky are detained.

Nata Radina