Vladimir Gridzin

Affiliated media: RFE/RL, Photo correspondent

Incident date: August 27, 2020

Attack type:

• Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

About 50 media representatives were detained on August 27 in Minsk at Freedom Square and Independence Square. The journalists were going to cover the action against violence and the march of believers of all confessions to the Red Church. Plain-clothed security officials loaded all the journalists into minibuses without registration plate numbers and took them to the police department to «check their documents». The police kept the journalists for several hours. In addition to their documents, they forcibly checked the information on their phones. Under Article 22.9 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus, an administrative case was initiated against Gridzin for cooperation with a foreign media without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. Two cameras were confiscated from the journalist «for inspection».