Evgenii Oleinik

Affiliated media: Sputnik, Journalist

Incident date: August 10, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalistsl

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Early in the morning of10 August, Yevgeniy Oleinik, a journalist from the Sputnik news agency, was beaten and detained. "I refused to sign a confession in the protocol, a copy of the protocol was not given to me. At lunchtime I was released," the journalist said.