Katsiaryna Pytleva
Affiliated media: Belteleradiocompany, Former employee (TV host)
Incident date: September 24, 2021
Attack type:
- Search with a court decree
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists
Location: Belarus, Minsk
Additional information:
It became known that the former TV host of Belteleradiocompany Katsiaryna Pytleva was charged with creation of an extremist formation (Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). She was forced to leave Belarus at the beginning of the year. On September 24, a second search took place in her flat in Minsk. «This time, came people from KGB. Fortunately, they didn’t break the door. Judging by their reaction, they didn’t expect to see the consequences of the previous search, even asked in surprise: «Did they break the guitar and cut the backpacks too?!», — Pytleva wrote on Facebook. The previous search was conducted on September 7. After their visit, Pytleva published a photo of the room. According to her, the law enforcers broke the front door to the flat and the door to the bedroom, cut up her wedding photos, broke hedgehog figurines and scattered flour and cereals.