Aliaksandr Dzianisau

Affiliated media: Freelance videographer

Incident date: June 23, 2021

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Hrodna

Additional information:

Hrodna-based videographer Aliaksandr Dzianisau was summoned to the Hrodna Region Department of the Investigative Committee for interrogation as a witness in a criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The case was brought against the artist Ales Pushkin and the head of the cultural and educational institution Tsentr Haradskoha Zhytsia Pavel Mazheika, after the exhibition of paintings. Dzianisau testified for several hours and is now under a non-disclosure undertaking. The journalist’s wife and daughter were also summoned for interrogation.