Событие Siarhei Piatrukhin - Justice for Journalists

Siarhei Piatrukhin

Affiliated media: YouTube channel "Narodnyy Reporter" (People's Reporter), Blogger

Incident date: November 13, 2018

Attack type:

  • Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ)

Location: Belarus, Brest

Additional information:

The blogger was detained when he wanted to interview the police inspector. He was taken to the Leninsky Internal Affairs Department, and then to the detention centre. Later the trail was held under Article on «Evasion of appearance to the body conducting administrative or criminal proceedings, or to the bailiff»). The reason was that the blogger did not come to the police station on 4 November, according to the summons.

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