Tatsiana Matveyeva

Affiliated media: Freelance Journalist

Incident date: June 30, 2022

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Vitsebsk

Additional information:

Tatsiana Matveeva received a phone call from the Oktyabrsky District Police Department of Vitsebsk and was invited to an allegedly preventive talk, saying that a public holiday was coming and mass events would take place, so prevention of offenses was carried out. However, the police did not limit themselves to «prevention». The police officer who spoke to the journalist was persistently interested in whether she continued to cooperate with the information portal TUT.BY, which had recently been recognized an «extremist organization». They questioned Matveyeva about it for almost two hours.