Alexander Vladyko

Affiliated media: Onliner.by, Journalist

Incident date: October 4, 2020

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Plainclothes security officials detained journalist with force when he was covering a protest rally against results of the presidential elections. They brought him to the district police department and released a few hours later. In the evening, he received a call from the police asking him to return to the police station. Next morning, he came back for a deposition. Police also held a «preventive conversation» with him about the inadmissibility of participation in unauthorised street actions.