Aryna Malinouskaya

Affiliated media: Belsat, TV presenter

Incident date: May 24, 2021

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Current Time

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

On the night of May 22, Aryna Malinouskaya left Belarus after the detention of six of her colleagues. On May 24, the journalist received a call from an investigator, who introduced himself as Uladzimir Piatrou. He called her on Telegram from the number of the girl’s sister’s husband and said that her relative and his friend were «at their place,» and now «they’re going after Valiantsina and Anatol Malinovsky» — the grandparents of the journalist. Then, she received a call from her sister’s husband Valiantsin Kucherenka, who said that he was being «taken away» and that his colleague, who was at his house, had also been detained. Valiantsin said that they were asking him when she could come, and added that «they would not get rid of us, our parents or family.» In the same conversation, Kucherenka said that investigators only want to conduct a check on the administrative case. After that, he said, they took him to Akrestina.