Nadzeya Buzhan

Affiliated media: Nasha Niva , Photo correspondent

Incident date: August 27, 2020

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: 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. Those who refused to give their smartphones for inspection had administrative reports drawn up on them to participate in an unauthorized rally and were held in the detention centre until the trial. The police officers forced Nadezhda Buzhan to delete the photo from the camera, threatening that otherwise «the camera might fall and ’accidentally break’».