Siarhei Serabro

Affiliated media: Narodnyya Naviny Vitsebska, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: March 17, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Vitsebsk

Additional information:

In the morning, police officers searched the flat of the editor-in-chief of the online media outlet Narodnyya Naviny Vitsebska Siarhei Serabro. They said that the search was conducted as part of a criminal case. As a result of the search, they seized a computer, a phone, and digital media. After that, the journalist was taken to the police station for interrogation, where the law enforcers recorded a forced «repentance» video with him. The journalist was released in the evening of the same day.