Irina Novik

Affiliated media: Hrodna.life, Journalist

Incident date: August 22, 2020

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Grodno

Additional information:

The journalist was detained by police officers when she, together with her husband were filming a pro-government rally in Grodno in support of Alexander Lukashenko. They were taken to the local police department where they stayed for an hour and been released after the preventive discussion. The police deleted all photos and videos from journalist's camera.