Siarhei Satsuk

Affiliated media: Ejednevnik (ej.by), Editor

Incident date: December 8, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The law enforcers searched the apartment of investigative journalist Siarhei Satsuk, confiscated phones and laptops. After the search, Satsuk was taken to the Investigative Committee for questioning in a long-standing criminal case on suspicion of bribery, then taken into custody, and placed in pre-trial detention center №1 in Minsk. On the same day, the website Ejednevnik became inaccessible to users from Belarus and abroad. «I received a notification from Google that all my passwords related to ej.by have been exposed. I suspect that the servers were seized», — Satsuk said.