Mikalai Yankoits - Justice for Journalists

Mikalai Yankoits

Affiliated media: Yandex Music, Editor, Journalist

Incident date: September 15, 2021

Attack type:

  • Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: European Radio for Belarus

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The Partizansky District Court of Minsk fined music journalist and editor of the service Yandex Music 100 base amounts under the article on disobedience to the police (Article 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). Mikalai Yankoits was detained on September 15, law enforcers searched his flat, but, according to him, «they found nothing». The journalist was kept in a detention centre for two days until the trial.

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