Investigative Committee summons all Nasha Niva staff for questioning

On Sep­tem­ber 23, the police ser­ached his home.

The search was con­duct­ed as part of the defama­tion case.  Deputy Inte­ri­or Min­is­ter Alexan­der Bar­suk­ouis named vic­tim in the case. After the search Martsi­novich was tak­en to the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee for inter­ro­ga­tion. The police seized took all dig­i­tal equip­ment, phones, flash cards, pass­ports, and sim-cards.

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DJs Kiryl Halanau and Ulad Sakalous­ki turned on Tsoi’s «Changes» on August 6 in Kievs­ki park. That day, the site, offi­cial­ly allo­cat­ed for cam­paign ral­lies, held a state-orga­nized Open Day of Extra-Cur­ric­u­lar Edu­ca­tion.

The same evening, the young peo­ple were detained. On August 7 both were sen­tenced to 10 days of jail for dis­or­der­ly con­duct. Ulad Sakalous­ki spend half of his term in soli­tary con­fine­ment. Halanau was held in such con­di­tions for three days.

After his release,  in an inter­view to Nasha Niva Sakalous­ki said that one day a man came to the room who said some­thing like: «Well, you lis­tened to the song, you want­ed changes, did you?».

- He hit me twice in the back. He said it was only the begin­ning: «I hope that you will get 10 years.» .

On August 21, Ulad Sakalous­ki had a con­ver­sa­tion in the Inte­ri­or Min­istry. On August 22 the DJs escaped to Lithua­nia.