Yan Roman detained in Hrodna. Police inspects Dzianisau’s apartment. Updated

They claim, Roman alleged­ly paid admin­is­tra­tive fines for two per­sons, who had been pun­ished for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the protests. Thus, he fund­ed the protests in the coun­try.

The jour­nal­ist’s sta­tus in the case is still not report­ed. He is in the police depart­ment at the moment.

«An immediate kick — and my teeth have been knocked out, and glasses broken.» TV journalist beaten in Hrodna

Yan Roman works with Pol­ish TV, cov­er­ing  his­to­ry and cul­ture. He is a mem­ber of BAJ. On August 10 he was severe­ly beat­en near the Kas­trych­nit­s­ki dis­trict police depart­ment of Hrod­na, where he was to meet his col­leagues upon release. Police­men in civil­ian clothes knocked out his teeth, broke his nose and a face bone. Roman had a large haematoma around his eys, bro­ken glass­es and dam­aged leg.

About 4 p.m., police came to «inspect» the apart­ment of jour­nal­ist Ales Dzian­isau. Only his daugh­ter, 18, was at home.  Ales’ wife was at work, and he was out of town. 

The inspec­tion was part of the same check-up, as in Roman’s case.

It end­ed after a few hours, with  police seiz­ing two lap­tops, four mobile phones, and a num­ber of stick­ers.

Ales daugh­ter, Daria, is safe. She was alone in the apart­ment when the inspec­tion took place.

Daria says, the offi­cers want­ed to know if she knew Hrod­na jour­nal­ists Ali­ak­sei Kairys and Andrei Mialesh­ka.

Dzian­isau is not in Hrod­na today.

Ales Dzian­isau is a free­lance cam­era­man, musi­cian, and leader of Dzieciu­ki band. He also suf­fered police vio­lence in the sum­mer of 2020. He was detained on August 11, and the police smashed his face and injured his leg. He was charged with dis­or­der­ly con­duct (Art. 17.1 of the Admin­is­tra­tive Code). Lat­er the charges were dropped.