MOSCOW—Belarus, shaken by three weeks of massive protests against its authoritarian president, on Aug. 29 cracked down hard on the news media, deporting some foreign journalists reporting in the country and revoking the accreditation of many Belarusian journalists.
Two Moscow-based Associated Press journalists who were covering the recent protests in Belarus were deported to Russia on Aug. 29. In addition, the AP’s Belarusian journalists were told by the government that their press credentials had been revoked.
