Affiliated media: BelaPAN, News agency

Incident date: January 14, 2021

Attack type:

• Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: belapan.by

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Employees of the Department for Combating Economic Crime forced their way into the news agency's office to conduct a search. Various items were seized including handwritten notes, documents, about a dozen hard drives, a local network server hard drive, two notebooks, and business cards. The search was carried out on behalf of the Department of the Investigative Committee for Minsk as part of a criminal case brought against journalist Andrei Aleksandrov (Article 342 of the Criminal Code - “conspiracy to grossly violate public order, or actively participate in them”).