Zmitser Lukashuk

Affiliated media: European Radio for Belarus, Journalist

Incident date: July 9, 2021

Attack type:

• Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: reform.by

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Zmitser Lukashuk, editor of the Euroradio broadcast, left Belarus. On the eve of July 5, the Belarusian authorities closed the correspondent bureau of European Radio for Belarus. In October 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus decided to re-accredit foreign journalists, thus journalists of European Radio for Belarus received no new accreditation. The book «Belarusian National Idea» — a collection of conversations of Zmitser Lukashuk and philosopher Maksim Goryunov with 85 guests of the program Idea X about what the national idea of the Belarusian people is — was declared extremist in March 2021.