Yury Paulavets

Affiliated media: Regnum, Publicist

Incident date: February 2, 2018

Attack type:

• Ban on leaving the country

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ)

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Yury Paulavets, Dzmitry Alimkin, and Siarhei Shyptenka have been found guilty of collective incitement of hatred on the ground of national identity. They were punished by five years’ imprisonment, suspended for three years. All of them will be released under recognizance not to leave the place of their residence before the sentence comes into force. Before the trial spet 14 months in the remand centre.