Pavel Mazheika

Affiliated media: Belsat TV channel, Freelance journalist

Incident date: July 16, 2021

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Hrodna

Additional information:

At 7 AM, law enforcers searched the apartment of journalist Pavel Mazheika. They confiscated phones, a computer, an international journalist’s licence, and money. After the search, the journalist was taken to the Leninsky District Police Department of Hrodna for questioning as a witness under Part 3 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (incitement of racial, national, religious or other social enmity or discord, committing deliberate actions aimed at rehabilitation and justification of Nazism).