Hanna Yakshtas

Affiliated media: Sil'nyye novosti (gomel.today) , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: October 12, 2020

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Gomel

Additional information:

The journalist was preventively detained before the weekend, when protests against the results of the presidential election are traditionally held all over the country, and placed in the detention center for three days until the trial, despite the fact that Hanna has two young children. On October 12, the court found Hanna Yakshtas a participant of the protest on the basis of the police report and fined her a large sum.