Anastasia Piliugina
Affiliated media: Blogger
Incident date: July 30, 2021
Attack type:
- Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Mediazona Belarus
Location: Belarus, Minsk
Additional information:
The Partizansky District Court of Minsk arrested blogger and marketing expert Anastasia Piliugina for 15 days for disobedience to the police. According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, Piliugina said in court that on July 29, she was interrogated by the KGB as a witness in the case of «mass riots» (Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). Piliugina noted that the questions at the KGB were not about the criminal case but the details of her biography. The officers took her to her apartment, where they searched. After the search, Piliugina and her boyfriend Uladzislau Pirtan were detained and put in different cars. Also, a message appeared in Piliugina's Telegram channel: «Dear subscribers, I have changed my political views! All members of the channel are deanonymized!». The avatar of the channel was changed to the national emblem of the Republic of Belarus. Her account was most likely hacked.