Tatsiana Karavenkova
Affiliated media: BelaPAN, Journalist
Incident date: July 9, 2021
Attack type:
- Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Current Time
Location: Belarus, Minsk
Additional information:
Tatsiana Karavenkova, the journalist of the BelaPAN news agency, left Belarus. «This difficult decision, which I hoped I would never have to make and which I rejected in every possible way, the editorial board and I ended up making in just a few minutes. It took another two hours to pack. Now I am torn with completely opposite feelings and endless questions in my head: Was my departure a showing of weakness or prudence? Could it be that we overestimated the warning, and in fact, everything would have worked out fine and could have continued to work at home? The feeling of safety, when you wake up in the morning, knowing that you do not flinch from any sound at the front door, is overlaid by fear for the remaining colleagues and relatives», — Tatsiana wrote on her Facebook page.