Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko heads what is widely regarded as the last dictatorship in Europe. Belarusian journalists are routinely jailed. Several have been murdered. AP Mike Harris writes:

I landed in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, last Friday to meet the journalist Oleg Bebenin and other civil society activists. On Monday I attended Oleg's funeral. One of Belarus's leading journalists, he had been found hanged in his country home earlier on Friday. His beloved 5 year old son's hammock was around his neck, hung so low that his feet touched the ground. Andrei Sannikov, of the human rights group Charter97, the organisation Bebenin co-founded, was one of the first at the scene. Read the story here.