Siarhei Serabro - Justice for Journalists

Siarhei Serabro

Affiliated media: Narodnya Naviny Vitsebska, Editor

Incident date: August 23, 2022

Attack type:

  • Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Vitsebsk

Additional information:

The editor of the website «Narodnya Naviny Vitsebska» Siarhei Serabro was summoned to the administration of GUBOPiK (Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption) of the Vitsebsk region. For an hour, law enforcers questioned Siarhei Serabro about the protest marches in the city after the presidential election in 2020. The police were interested in whether the journalist had taken part in them and whether he had been held administratively liable for participation in unauthorized mass actions at that time.

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