Mikita Dziamentsieu

Affiliated media: Belteleradiocompany, Former journalist

Incident date: February 10, 2021

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Barysau

Additional information:

The law enforcers searched the flat of the former journalist of the state-owned Belteleradiocompany Mikita Dziamentsieu. They seized digital equipment, memory cards, and phones. According to the journalist’s wife, the search was carried out by officers of the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee. Dziamentsieu himself was detained when he was picking up his child from kindergarten, taken for interrogation, and then released on a non-disclosure undertaking.