Anatol Hatouchyts

Affiliated media: Narodnaya Volya, Journalist

Incident date: February 5, 2022

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Homel

Additional information:

In the evening, officers of the Zheleznodorozhny District Police Department came with a search to the apartment of Anatol Hatouchyts. They said that someone was throwing metal spikes near the traffic police building and it could allegedly have been the journalist. There was no authorisation from the city prosecutor in the search warrant. The search lasted about an hour and as a result, nothing suspicious was found or seized. After the search, the police questioned Hatouchyts, who explained that on February 3, he was at home in the evening and could not have been near the traffic police building in any way. This is the third search in the journalist’s apartment within a year.