Hantsavitski Chas - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Hantsavitski Chas , Newspaper

Incident date: December 29, 2020

Attack type:

  • Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Hantsavichy

Additional information:

In the morning, the police came to the newspaper's editorial office to conduct a search, but nothing was seized due to the investigative actions. The prosecutor sanctioned the search as part of the criminal case under the article «insult of the President of the Republic of Belarus» (Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus), initiated against the correspondent of the Pershiy Region website Siarhei Hardzievich.

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