Vasili Polonsky

Affiliated media: TV Dozhd (TV Rain) , Journalist

Incident date: August 9, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belsat TV channel

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

In Minsk, TV Dozhd (TV Rain) correspondents Vladimir Romensky and Vasily Polonsky and cameraman Nikolay Antipov were detained. The video of the detention shows how people in civilian clothes and in masks put them on the asphalt and take them away in an unknown direction. Administrative reports were drawn up on journalists under Article 22.9 (violation of media legislation). Their apartment was also searched. The journalists were deported and banned from entering Belarus for 5 years.