Irina Novik

Affiliated media: Hrodna.life, Journalist

Incident date: March 26, 2021

Attack type:

• Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Grodno

Additional information:

Police conducted a 4 hour long search of Hrodna.life editor Irina Novik’s home. The journalist’s laptop and phone were confiscated, and she was made to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Irina is a witness in a criminal case regarding “the rehabilitation of Nazism”, opened on 26 March by the Grodno prosecutor’s office against journalist Pavel Mozheiko (head of the Centre for Urban Life) and artist Ales Pushkin.