Kate Peters

Affiliated media: BBC, Journalist

Incident date: August 27, 2020

Attack type:

• Search without a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

About 50 media workers were detained on the evening of August 27 in Minsk at the Freedom Square and Independence Square. The security forces, in plain clothes, loaded all journalists in minibuses without registration numbers and brought them to the local police station allegedly for a document check. The police held journalists for several hours. In addition to documents, journalists were forced to show what's inside their phones. Those who refused to hand over their phones were arrested until the trial.