Pavel Dabravolski - Justice for Journalists

Pavel Dabravolski

Affiliated media: BelaPAN , Journalist

Incident date: November 2, 2020

Attack type:

  • Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Pavel Dabravolski was detained at home. He managed to inform his colleagues: «The police in masks came». He was taken to the district police department. An administrative report was drawn up on him for alleged participation in an unauthorized event (Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus). He was held in a detention center for three days until the trial. On November 2, the court found him guilty and arrested him for 15 days based on the police report. It is worth mentioning that Dabravolski was at the protests action as a journalist and had his media worker ID.

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