Henadz Mazheyka

Affiliated media: Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, Journalist

Incident date: October 1, 2021

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Henadz Mazheyka was detained by law enforcers at the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow when he was trying to fly to Warsaw. He was taken to the plane for the flight to Minsk, where he was met by the KGB officers and taken to the temporary detention centre on Akrestsina. According to the journalist's mother, on October 1, the KGB officers were searching her son's flat for 2.5 hours. They seized flash drives, stickers, and badges from 2001. Article 130 of the Criminal Code (inciting discord) and Article 369 of the Criminal Code (insulting a public servant) were mentioned in the search warrant. On September 28, Henadz Mazheyka published an article on the website of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus with a positive review of the Minsk resident Andrey Zeltsar, killed that day by KGB officers during a shootout who were trying to break into his flat. A KGB officer was also killed during that incident.