Елена Ковальчук

Affiliated media: Hrodna.life, Журналист

Incident date: September 27, 2020

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Grodno

Additional information:

The journalist was detained by the police when she was covering a protest rally in Grodno. She was taken to the District Internal Affairs department, where her documents were checked and preventive conversation on the inadmissibility of participation in unauthorised mass events took place. Then she was released.