Pavel Krichko - Justice for Journalists

Pavel Krichko

Affiliated media: Narodnaya Volya , Journalist

Incident date: October 11, 2020

Attack type:

  • Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

At least 43 media workers were detained by security officials on October 11, while they were covering protests against the results of the presidential election. The journalist was detained in the city center and taken to the police department «to check the documents». There he was drawn up an administrative report for alleged disobedience to the police (Article 23.4 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus). He was held in the police department for about 10 hours, after which he was released.

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