Andrei Shobin

Affiliated media: Belsat TV, Journalist

Incident date: March 27, 2017

Attack type:

• Search without a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Viasna Human Rights Centre

Location: Belarus, Babruysk

Additional information:

KGB officers searched the apartment of journalist Andrei Shobin. As s result, computers and floppy disks were seized. After the search, he was taken for interrogation to the KGB. He was told that he is a witness of the criminal case. The criminal case concerns people who disseminated satirical cartoons on the Internet "defaming the honour and dignity of the President of Belarus."