Igor Ilyash

Affiliated media: Belsat TV, Freelance journalist

Incident date: November 24, 2020

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Three unidentified men in plain clothes entered the journalist’s apartment with a key that was probably confiscated from his wife, Yekaterina Andreyeva. These people showed the order to seize the equipment of Andreyeva, but as a result confiscated the equipment of Igor. The journalist himself was allegedly taken to testify in his wife’s case. However, at the police department ,Igor Ilyash was presented with a report for his participation in an unauthorised protest rally. Prior to the trial, he was sent to a detention centre.