Svetlana Garda

Affiliated media: Media Polesye, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: October 15, 2020

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Luninets

Additional information:

Deputy Chief of the District Police Vitaly Rylach on the phone demanded the journalist to come to the station and to provide an explanation about the filming on 9 August. At the request of the journalist to send a summons, the policeman threatened her saying that "they would come and handcuff her". Svetlana also noted that when she was on vacation, police officers visited her home. They asked her son to reveal where is his mother saying that she should come to the police station.