Editor of news website Pieršy Rehijon arrested in Brest

Accord­ing to Mr. Supruniuk’s wife, police offi­cers took away her hus­band at about 10:20 p.m.

“After he was dri­ven away, she tried to find out where he was and what he was accused of,” Pieršy Rehi­jon report­ed. “She was told that he was at the Lienin­s­ki dis­trict police sta­tion in Brest and was detained. A local police offi­cer did not say why the jour­nal­ist was detained, explain­ing that he had no right to pro­vide this infor­ma­tion.”    

Mr. Supruniuk is a mem­ber of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists. He was in charge of its Brest branch for some time.

He used to work for Brest­sky Kuri­er, a news­pa­per cov­er­ing news in Brest and the Brest region, and a num­ber of oth­er pub­li­ca­tions.