Journalist Artsiom Mayorau arrested for 15 days

He was detained on the morn­ing of May 18 in the build­ing of the TUT.BY news­room. The where­abouts of the detained jour­nal­ist were unknown for the whole day. The police drew up a report for dis­or­der­ly con­duct (Art. 19.1 of the Code of Admin­is­tra­tive Offences).

The report says that a police­man noticed May­orau and tried to have a pre­ven­tive con­ver­sa­tion with him. Dur­ing the con­ver­sa­tion, the jour­nal­ist was alleged­ly swear­ing and swing­ing his arms.

The judg­ment in the case was announced on 21 May. The jour­nal­ist had stayed in Akrestsi­na deten­tion cen­ter until then.

The case was heard by judge Tat­siana Motyl.

Iron­i­cal­ly, in 2012, the same very judge heard the “dis­or­der­ly con­duct” case against Pavel Sviard­lou, now chief edi­tor, and then —  reporter of the Euro­pean Radio for Belarus. He got the same 15 days of jail, reports ERB.