Pavel Mazheika

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: August 30, 2022

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Hrodna

Additional information:

Hrodna-based journalist Pavel Mazheika was detained when he came from Poland to visit his parents. The law enforcers searched Pavel’s apartment in Hrodna and his house in a village in the Hrodna region. Moreover, searches were conducted in the apartments of relatives and distant relatives of the journalist. At first, Mozheika was placed in the temporary detention center, then transferred to the primary detention center. It is known that a criminal case was brought against Pavel for exercising his freedom of expression, but there is no information about the article yet.