Kastus Shytal

Affiliated media: Freelance journalist

Incident date: September 16, 2022

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Dokshitsky district

Additional information:

The police officers conducted a search in the house of the mother of local historian and journalist Kastus Shytal. As a result, they did not seize anything, but told her to tell her son to go back to Belarus, as «they’ll just talk to him». Shytal is registered in his parents’ apartment but has not lived there for more than 10 years. At the end of 2021, the journalist left the country for security reasons.