Anatol Hatouchyts

Affiliated media: Narodnaya Volya, Journalist

Incident date: May 23, 2023

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:

Late in the evening, police officers came to the home of journalist Anatol Hatouchyts to inspect the house and have a preventive conversation. Having presented the order of the head of the Tsentralny District Police Department of Homel Valery Zdanevich, the policemen demanded a smartphone to check for possible subscriptions to «extremist» Telegram channels. The journalist showed them the phone, but the law enforcers did not find any banned content. Since 2020, this is the sixth visit of the police to Hatouchyts’s flat, four of which were searches and seizures of professional equipment.