MINSK, August 9 - RAPSI. Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii newspaper journalist Irina Kozlik has been fined 3 million Belarusian rubles (about $360) for taking a photograph with a teddy bear.

Nasha Niva newspaper photojournalist Yulia Doroshkevich and Kozlik were detained in Minsk on Wednesday evening.

The journalists were accused of holding an unauthorized flash mob. They allegedly made photos with teddy bears to support Anton Suryapin and Sergei Basharimov, who were earlier detained.

In early June, teddy bears with mottos in support of freedom of speech were thrown out of a Swedish plane illegally crossing Belarusian airspace.

Suryapin, who posted the pictures of the teddy bears on his website, is being held in an isolation ward at the State Security Committee on charges of aiding the "teddy bear descent."

Belarus has demanded that the organizers and participants of the Swedish teddy bear rally arrive in Minsk to ensure the impartial investigation of the case.