Andrzej Poczobut

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: February 8, 2024

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Navapolatsk

Additional information:

It became known that journalist Andrzej Poczobut was placed in a punitive isolation centre, where prisoners are not allowed even to correspond with each other. For the last 8 months, he was not allowed a single visit, not a single call, not a single parcel, not even with his belongings. According to human rights activists, Andrzej Pochobut was kept in a cell-type facility almost the whole time of his imprisonment in the penal colony № 1 in Navapolatsk.