Darya Chultsova

Affiliated media: Belsat TV , Freelance journalist

Incident date: August 9, 2020

Attack type:

• Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences
• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalistsl

Location: Belarus, Mogilev

Additional information:

The journalist was detained on the street at about 14.00 and taken to the District Department of Internal Affairs. During the arrest, the police officers said that she was allegedly a witness in some case of journalist Alina Skrebunova. At the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs, the journalist was initially kept in one of the offices, and in the evening they police officers started a conversation with her. They started off the conversation on various topics and ended with questions about her work. The protocol was drawn on illegal journalistic activities and the journalist was handed over a summons demanding to appear on August 13.