Siarhei Satsuk - Justice for Journalists

Siarhei Satsuk

Affiliated media: Yezhednevnik, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: June 3, 2020

Attack type:

  • Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The journalist was summoned for interrogation to the Investigative Committee. A criminal case was opened against him under Art. 429, part 2 (“receipt of bribes”) of the Criminal Code of Belarus. Financial aid that Sacuk received to conduct investigative journalism is the basis for the charge.

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