Death of Jewish dissident during home raid by Belarus security forces prompts protests and arrests Andrei Zeltzer, 31, worked for an American IT company and, according to the authoritarian Lukashenko government, was shot after he resisted arrest.
In Belarus, young Jews among those picked off street and jailed amid police crackdown on protesters Artur Raisky and Albert Kengerli had tried to avoid the mass protests against their native country’s autocratic leader, but police arrested them anyway.
Belarus Jews mourn Poway synagogue victim at community’s largest event Many of the 600 participants at Minsk’s Limmud conference wept at a survivor’s televised account of the shooting.
