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The Guardian: Belarus under pressure to investigate death of media activist
Sep 9, 2010 at 06:24 | Associated PressInternational pressure was today growing for an independent inquiry into the death of a leading Belarussian journalist and opposition activist who was found dead at his country house last week. Friends of Oleg Bebenin rejected government claims that the journalist had killed himself, saying they believed he had been murdered. Read the story here.