Pavel Patapau

Affiliated media: Belsat, TV channel's technical officer

Incident date: May 24, 2021

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Law enforcers burst into Minsk studio of Belsat with a search. They also detained the technical staff, who were preparing the studio for the evening shooting of the talk show: sound engineer, cameramen, as well as the studio administrator. They were taken to the police department and reports were drawn up under Article 24.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus. As stated in the reports, they were charged with the fact that when they got out of the official transport on the territory of the police department, they «resisted and grabbed their uniforms, thus disobeying the police officers». Before the trial, they were placed in the isolation centre on Akrestsina. On May 24, the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk found the detained employees of Belsat guilty and arrested each of them for 15 days.