who were detained and at the moment it seems that he's in a kind of state of limbo because in in bella reuss the law stipulates that you can actually be arrested without an official charge for up to three days before a charge is then leveled at you and you're then put into pretrial detention so it seems that he's in in a kind of legal limbo and a lot is still unclear brian is the government in belarus saying anything else about these the allegations against the journals have been arrested. well in the case of. the authours actually gave no official reason for their arrest and. his wife told g w that authorities initially said when they came to search the apartment that they were actually just searching the address. that address as a whole that they weren't actually directing the searches at the journalist directly and initially because he was treated as a witness in this case rather than as a suspect in this case against journalists in belarus authorities did however say that it was connected to the arrest of other journalists and bella ruse and they are accused of on lawfully accessing info