Ukrainian Journalist Mykola Balaban Detained in Belarus

The police knocked on the journalist’s hotel room ear­ly in the morn­ing and took him to a police sta­tion. Lat­er the jour­nal­ist was released. The Forum orga­niz­ers called the inci­dent a mis­un­der­stand­ing.

Lat­er the jour­nal­ist explained, the police mis­took him for his name­sake. There is anoth­er Myko­la Bal­a­ban in Ukraine, the author of Inform­na­palm web­site, which reveals the Russ­ian aggres­sion in Ukraine.

After 6 hours spent in a police sta­tion, the jour­nal­ist was let go.