Artsyom Mayorau

Affiliated media: European Radio for Belarus, Journalist

Incident date: May 18, 2021

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The journalist of European Radio for Belarus Artsyom Mayorau was arrested for 15 days. Judge of the Maskouski District of Minsk Tatsiana Matyl found him guilty of petty hooliganism (Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus) on the basis of a police report. Mayorau was detained in the morning of May 18 in the building where the editorial office of the portal TUT.BY is located. On that day, law enforcers came to the office of the portal, the management of the editorial office and journalists were detained in the morning. The journalist was kept in the detention centre until the trial. According to Euroradio, the report said that the police officer noticed Mayorau and wanted to summon him for a preventive conversation, but the journalist responded by swearing and waving his hands.