Head of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Zhanna Litvinova was on Thursday prohibited from leaving the country for Poland, the organization said on its website.
Litvinova was passing through customs control at Minsk-2 airport when officers told her that she is temporarily not allowed to leave the country.
The country’s constitution guarantees freedom of movement and travel, but several Belarus journalists working for non-governmental news outlets as well as rights activivsts and public figures have been prohibited from leaving the country in recent weeks.
The day before, Andrei Dynko, the editor-in-chief of the opposition weekly Nasha Niva, was removed from a train to Vilnius on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, the newspaper said on its website.
At least five other opponents of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko have been prevented from leaving the country since the start of this month.
All of them put it down to an alleged list of 108 opposition activists banned from leaving the country as punishment for urging the European Union to impose sanctions on Belarus. The EU blacklisted 21 Belarusian officials for entry in February, in addition to 210 banned earlier.
Belarusian authorities, which have cracked down on Lukashenko’s opponents after his victory in disputed presidential elections in 2010, have repeatedly denied the existence of an opposition blacklist.
