Freelance videographer Yauhen Hlushkou in custody over participating in ‘extremist formation’

Yauhen Glushk­ou’s arrest in ear­ly Jan­u­ary was also report­ed by the media. Law enforce­ment offi­cials broke into his apart­ment since he would not open the door. The video­g­ra­ph­er was dragged out of his home with­out any out­er­wear.

Yauhen Hlushk­ou lived alone, so his arrest was not imme­di­ate­ly known. His friends began look­ing for him when they real­ized that he had not been in touch for sev­er­al days. The video­g­ra­ph­er was report­ed­ly held in a tem­po­rary deten­tion cen­ter after his arrest before being trans­ferred to pre-tri­al deten­tion.

Cur­rent­ly, Mahilou blog­ger and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Ales Sabaleus­ki is also being held there. Both of them are sus­pect­ed of coop­er­at­ing with infor­ma­tion resources, specif­i­cal­ly the YouTube chan­nel 6TV Belarus and the web­site Mahilou.Media. These media out­lets have been rec­og­nized as ‘extrem­ist for­ma­tions’ by the Belaru­sian KGB on Novem­ber 29, 2023.

Yauhen Hlushk­ou worked at Mahil­iou City Tele­vi­sion for many years. In the ear­ly 2000s, he coop­er­at­ed with sev­er­al city por­tals. Recent­ly, he has not been engaged in any pub­lic activ­i­ties and has led a rather with­drawn life.

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