Tatsiana Karavenkova

Affiliated media: BelaPAN , Journalist

Incident date: October 11, 2020

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

At least 43 media workers were detained by security officials on October 11, while they were covering protests against the results of the presidential election. The journalist was detained during the day in the city center and taken to the police department «to check the documents». There she was drawn up an administrative report for alleged disobedience to the police (Article 23.4 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus). She was held in the police department for about 10 hours, after which she was released.