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38-year-old Dzmitry Halko was arrested on 22 April on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border and is facing charges of ‘attacking a police officer’, with many assuming the arrest to be in fact linked with his role in Belarusian Partisan and other independent Belarusian publications.
Halko is both Ukrainian and Belarusian by nationality, and has Belarusian citizenship. He has been living in Mariupol, Ukraine for some time, with his Ukrainian wife, Julia Garkushka, and their two-year-old son, but has parents and two much older sons in Belarus. He took part in Euromaidan and over the last four years has provided coverage of the Russian-backed military conflict in eastern Ukraine, working as a fixer for Kyiv Post, the UK’s Times and other publications.
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