Affiliated media: Nasha Niva, 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, Minsk

Additional information:

At the beginning of the working day, law enforcers searched the editorial office of the website Nasha Niva. They seized equipment, digital media, and documentation. After that, the law enforcers searched the flats of the heads of the media outlet: editor-in-chief Yahor Martinovich, chief accountant Volha Rakovich, head of the advertising department Andrey Skurko, and editor-in-chief of the magazine Nasha Historya Andrey Dynko. The searches were conducted under criminal articles for gross violation of order (Article 342) and for «mass riots» (Article 293). Then, all four were interrogated and placed under arrest in the status of suspects. In the morning of June 8, the website Nasha Niva — nn.by — stopped opening. The Ministry of Information reported that it decided to block the website.