Piotr Huzaieuski

Affiliated media: Hantsavitski Chas, Pershiy Region, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: December 29, 2020

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Hantsavichy

Additional information:

The police searched the apartment of the editor-in-chief of the regional newspaper Hantsavitski Chas and founder of the Pershiy Region website Piotr Huzaieuski. As a result, they seized the journalist's personal laptop. The search was sanctioned by the prosecutor as part of the criminal case under the article «insult of the President of the Republic of Belarus» (Article 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus), initiated against the correspondent of Pershiy Region Siarhei Hardzievich.