Dzmitry Dzmitriyev

Affiliated media: Novy Chas, Photo correspondent

Incident date: August 5, 2021

Attack type:

• Search without a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

At 6.40 AM, photo correspondent of Novy Chas Dzmitry Dzmitriyev reported that law enforcers came to his flat. The journalist’s flat was searched «as part of the criminal case», after which he was taken to the Investigative Committee for interrogation. At the end of the day, it became known that the court arrested Dzmitriyev for 15 days, accusing him of disobeying the police (Article 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus).