Olga Komyagina - Justice for Journalists

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Olga Komyagina

Affiliated media: TUT.BY, Journalist

Incident date: September 27, 2020

Attack type:

  • Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Grodno

Additional information:

The journalist was detained by the police when she was covering a protest action in Grodno. She was taken to the police department and released only after a preventive talk about the inadmissibility of participation in an unauthorized mass event and documents check.