Valery Ruselik - Justice for Journalists

Valery Ruselik

Affiliated media: Belsat , Journalist

Incident date: October 23, 2025

Attack type:

  • Pressure on a media worker via non-physical pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Valery Ruselik's Facebook account

Location: Belarus, Hrodna

Additional information:

Security forces have visited the relatives of Grodno journalist Valery Ruselik. “Today I learned that the security forces are harassing my relatives again. They are asking about me and my family, without explaining the reasons for their visits and questioning,” Ruselik wrote on Facebook on 23 October. Valery Ruselik is a journalist from Grodno who has lived in Warsaw for many years. His project daroha was designated an extremist organisation. He recently returned to the television channel Belsat. Security forces also visited his relatives in April 2025.

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