Affiliated media: TUT.BY, Journalists

Incident date: August 9, 2020

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

On the main day of the presidential election, the journalists of the TUT.BY news portal were kicked out from the polling station in Minsk secondary school №32. Chairperson of the election commission Mikhailava asked journalists to work only from the side of the wall with the inscription «place for media representatives». When the reporters disagreed, she called the police officer, who kicked journalists out of the polling station.