Mikola Balaban

Affiliated media: The Village Ukraine, Founder, Journalist

Incident date: October 25, 2018

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ)

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Mikola Balaban, Ukrainian journalist and founder of the The Village Ukraine, who came to Minsk for Media Management and IT Forum, was detained in Minsk. The police knocked on the journalist’s hotel room early in the morning and took him to a police station. Later the journalist was released. The police mistook him for his namesake.