Hanna Valadashchuk - Justice for Journalists

Hanna Valadashchuk

Affiliated media: Hazeta Slonimskaya, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: November 9, 2020

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Slonim

Additional information:

The journalist's apartment was searched, which was done with the prosecutor's permission as part of a criminal case about libelling an education worker. Volodashchuk is a witness in the case. As a result of the search, law enforcement officers seized two computers, SIM cards, and flash drives. Immediately after the search, the journalist was summoned to the police and interrogated.

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