Poland's Foreign Ministry has confirmed to PAP that a member of the Union of Poles in Belarus and his wife have been detained by the Belarus authorities and transported to the capital, Minsk.
A Polish-Belarusian minority journalist said on Wednesday morning that Belarus police had entered his apartment in Grodno.
A journalist and activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB) was summoned to the prosecutor's office in Grodno on Tuesday and warned that he should not refer to any "persecution of the Polish minority" in his commentaries.
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