Investigative Committee Prolongs Inquiry into Beating Incident

The Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee sent a rul­ing to Pavel Dabravol­s­ki, dat­ed March 25, inform­ing that the term of inves­ti­ga­tion had been pro­longed by one more month.

On March 16, the cor­re­spon­dent wrote on his Face­book page that inves­ti­ga­tors had returned his smart­phone which, as he says, had some audio files that could serve as evi­dence of the beat­ing, and a delet­ed video file record­ed slight­ly ahead of the inci­dent. He noticed that Android 5.1.1 was installed on the smart­phone instead of the ver­sion 6.0.1 he had ear­li­er. The results of the check-up are unknown.

The jour­nal­ist still hopes that the inves­ti­ga­tion will reveal and pun­ish the offend­ers.

In the Beat­ing Case, Fine against Jour­nal­ist Upheld on Appeal

Jour­nal­ist Beat­en in Court Build­ing

BAJ Demands Crim­i­nal Inves­ti­ga­tion into the Fact of Beat­ing a Jour­nal­ist

Jour­nal­ists Peti­tion to Inves­ti­gate the Beat­ing Case

OSCE Rep­re­sen­ta­tive con­demns police vio­lence against jour­nal­ist in Belarus and reit­er­ates call on author­i­ties to stop per­se­cut­ing mem­bers of media

EFJ: Belarus detains and fines jour­nal­ist for film­ing police attack­ing pro­test­ers

RSF: REJOINING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REQUIRES END TO REPRESSION

Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion Replies to Peti­tion: Jour­nal­ist Inter­fered with Police’s Actions

Andrei Bas­tunets Speaks in Edi­tors’ Club