Minsk police detain photo reporter Tatsyana Kapitonava who worked at conference

She was film­ing the Emerge con­fer­ence, when police­men appeared at the venue. Accord­ing to eye­wit­ness­es, the goal of their vis­it was detain­ing the jour­nal­ist.

The woman was tak­en to Savet­s­ki dis­trict police depart­ment; an admin­is­tra­tive case was ini­ti­at­ed against her. The police offi­cers refuse to reveal what Tat­syana is accused of.

Then she was trans­ferred to the noto­ri­ous deten­tion cen­tre on Akrestsin Street. As courts are closed at week­ends, she is like­ly to be tried on May, 14.