Ihar Losik - Justice for Journalists

Ihar Losik

Affiliated media: Telegram channel “Belarus golovnogo mozga” (“Belarus of the brain”) , Blogger

Incident date: June 25, 2020

Attack type:

  • Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison
  • Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents
  • Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Baranovichi

Additional information:

The blogger was detained by the security officials; before that, his apartment was searched and his computers and phone were seized. The reason for the search is yet to be known. The Telegram channel «Belarus golovnogo mozga» has 167 thousand subscribers. Over the last few months, the channel had been actively covering the events around the election campaign, including publishing videos of witnesses of detentions during the «chain of solidarity» in Minsk.

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