Affiliated media: Brestskaya Gazeta, News website

Incident date: July 8, 2021

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Brest

Additional information:

The law enforcers searched the editorial office of Brestskaya Gazeta. They seized all the equipment: computers, monitors, telephones, etc. The reasons for the search are unknown. On the same day, deputy head of the KGB investigation department Kanstantsin Bychok said on the air of the state TV channel Belarus 1 about the «large-scale operation to clean up radicalised individuals». «Urgent investigative actions and other procedural actions are being carried out, including searches and detentions, which will verify the involvement of each participant in the commission of criminal acts», — he said.