Journalists detained while covering street protests LIST, VIDEO

Minsk

Jour­nal­ists of the Euro­pean Radio for Belarus (Euro­ra­dio) Mikhail Ilyin and Art­siom May­orau were detained while live stream­ing from Pier­amo­hi square. They were forced into the mini bus while still film­ing. One could hear how Mikhail Ilyin was shout­ing “We are jour­nal­ists”. Their press badges were vis­i­ble. Despite that plain­clothes police­men detained them and lat­er moved them into the pris­on­er trans­port vehi­cle.

At about 11 pm Ilyin and May­orau were released from the police depart­ment with­out any reports.

Cor­re­spon­dent of the TUT.BY por­tal Ali­ak­sei Sud­nikau was briefly detained and then released at the Nieza­lez­nasci avenue. He was lat­er detained again, was tak­en to the police depart­ment.

At about 02.20 pm Sud­nikau was released from the police depart­ment with­out any reports.

TUT.BY cor­re­spon­dent Use­val­ad Zaru­bin was detained and tak­en to the police depart­ment.

At about 02.20 pm Zaru­bin was released from the police depart­ment with­out any reports.

Free­lancer for Novy Cas Art­siom Lia­va was detained and put into the pris­on­er trans­port vehi­cle near Kas­tryc­nick­a­ja square.

At about 05.00 pm Lia­va was released from the police depart­ment with­out any reports.

Jour­nal­ists of RFE/RL Ales Pilet­s­ki and Andrey Rabchyk were detained on air while live stream­ing from the street.

At about 11 pm Pilet­s­ki and Rabchyk were released from the police depart­ment with­out any reports.

Jour­nal­ist of Bel­sat TV Kat­siary­na Andree­va was also detained while stream­ing.

At about 00.20 pm Andree­va was released from the police depart­ment. A report under Art. 23.34 of the Admin­is­tra­tive Code (Vio­la­tion of the order of orga­niz­ing or hold­ing mass events).

Jour­nal­ist of Bel­sat TV Ihar Ilyash was detained and brought to the Savet­s­ki dis­trict police depart­men.

At about 11.50 pm Ilyash was released from the police depart­ment.

BBC oper­a­tor Andy Smythe was detained.

  At about 11.40 pm Smythe was released from the police depart­ment with­out any reports.

Homel

Gomel.Today cor­re­spon­dent Nadzeya Puzhyn­skaya, cam­er­a­woman Mary­na Drabysheuskaya, jour­nal­ist Yury Hlushak­ou were detained while stream­ing protests live. Nadzeya Puzhyn­skaya and Mary­na Drabysheuskaya were trans­port­ed to the Homel Cen­tral Dis­trict Depart­ment of Inte­ri­or.

Puzhyn­skaya and Draby­shevskaya were released with­out any reports.

Glushak­ou was released after 1 am. A report under Art. 23.34 of the Admin­is­tra­tive Code (Vio­la­tion of the order of orga­niz­ing or hold­ing mass events).

Brest

When TUT.BY cor­re­spon­dent Stas Kor­shu­nau start­ed film­ing deten­tions of pro­test­ers, he was pushed away, his cam­era was obstruct­ed. 

Dani­la had a free­lance jour­nal­ist’s card.

Jn July 15, Dani­la Polyan­s­ki is in the deten­tion cen­ter.