Mikhail Fomin

Affiliated media: ARD, Journalist

Incident date: August 28, 2020

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Charter 97

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Camera crew of the German ARD TV channel: Ilya Kuznetsov, as well as Russian citizens Sergey Sergeyev and Mikhail Fomin (all three were accredited by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry as journalists of the ARD TV channel) were detained in Minsk. The journalists spent the night at the police department; they were released only in the morning. Journalists have been stripped of their accreditation. Sergeyev and Fomin were deported. Russian journalists were deported from Belarus with a ban on returning for five years. An administrative protocol was drawn up to Kuznetsov for active participation in a mass action.