Siarhei Niarouny

Affiliated media: Volny Horad, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: February 4, 2021

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Krychau

Additional information:

The editor-in-chief of the Krychau-based small-circulation newspaper Volny Horad Siarhei Niarouny was summoned to the Krychau police department for a preventive talk. Two lieutenant colonels and two police majors were waiting for him in the office of the head of the police department Andrei Lazakovich. According to Niarouny, the policemen once again asked him whether he used Telegram channels and who took a group photo with the national flag near the district administration. The officers were especially interested in who Niarouny had given an interview about his flat being searched and his computer seized. At the end of an hour-and-a-half-long conversation, the journalist was warned against participation in unauthorised events.