Yury Dzyashuk

Affiliated media: Freelance journalist

Incident date: February 9, 2021

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Byarozauka

Additional information:

The police searched the flat of the freelance journalist Yury Dzyashuk. According to the law enforcers, the search took place in a criminal case for «deliberate disrepair of a vehicle or means of communication» (Part 1 of Article 309 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus), in which Dzyashuk is a witness. As a result, a computer, two video cameras, a laptop, flash memory drives, and a mobile phone were seized from the journalist.