Tag: Detains

Algeria Detains 36 in Mob Killing of Man Amid Wildfires

ALGIERS, Algeria—Authorities have detained 36 people in the brutal mob killing and burning of a man in a town in Algeria’s Kabyle region that the crowd suspected of starting dozens of wildfires but who had actually come to help, the head of the judicial police said Sunday. The fires that began last Monday tore through…


Belarus Government Blocks Media Outlet, Detains Reporters

KYIV, Ukraine—Belarusian authorities blocked the website of a leading online media outlet, detained several of its journalists, and conducted searches involving three other media organizations Thursday, the latest moves in a sweeping clampdown on dissent and independent media in the ex-Soviet nation. Belarus’s Information Ministry said it has blocked Nasha Niva’s website after the prosecutor…