Aliaksandr Kornyshau

Affiliated media: Vitsebsky Kurier News, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: May 23, 2024

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Vitsebsk

Additional information:

The law enforcers came with another search to the flat of the parents of Aliaksandr Kornyshau, the editor of the regional online media outlet Vitsebsky Kurier News. The journalist is only registered in the flat, but has not lived there for a long time — he has been abroad since November 2020. They said they would look for «extremist information products», but found nothing. At the same time, they questioned the elderly about how long Aliaksandr Kornyshau had been working as a journalist and how Vitsebsky Kurier News was financed.