Sergei Tikhanovsky - Justice for Journalists

Sergei Tikhanovsky

Affiliated media: YouTube channel "Country for Life", Blogger

Incident date: May 29, 2020

Attack type:

  • Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Viasna Human Rights Centre

Location: Belarus, Grodno

Additional information:

On May 29, police officers detained the head of the initiative group, blogger of the YouTube channel «Country for Life» Sergei Tikhanovsky during the picket in Grodno to collect signatures in support of the nomination of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as a presidential candidate. On May 30, it became known that the criminal case for violence against police officers was initiated against the blogger. It is known that Tikhanovsky and seven other detainees are kept in the temporary detention center in Minsk.

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