Belsat journalists detained in Shklou, their phones seized

Cor­re­spon­dents Stanis­lau Ivashke­vich, Vol­ha Rat­mi­ra­va and cam­era­man Ivan Murauiou were detained in Shk­lou while mak­ing the inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism pro­gram.

The deten­tion took place at around 15:30.

At the time of deten­tion, they had not even had time to start record­ing and to get the equip­ment out of the car. The jour­nal­ists saw that they were being fol­lowed and decid­ed to leave, but did not have time to do so.

At 7 p.m. it was report­ed that all three jour­nal­ists were released from Shk­lou police precinct, but their phones were tak­en away. Both the rea­son for the deten­tion and the rea­son for tak­ing away the equip­ment are unknown.