Tatsiana Karavenkova

Affiliated media: BelaPAN , Journalist

Incident date: August 27, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

About 50 media representatives were detained on August 27 in Minsk at Freedom Square and Independence Square. The journalists were going to cover the action against violence and the march of believers of all confessions to the Red Church. Plain-clothed security officials loaded all the journalists into minibuses without registration plate numbers and took them to the police department to «check their documents». The police kept journalists in the station for several hours. In addition to their documents, they forcibly checked their phones. Tatsiana refused to present her phone to the security officials then they threatened her with a detention center. The journalist's blood pressure rose, and an ambulance took her to the hospital.