The host of the “Frankly Speaking” program left Belarus for security reasons. Now her relatives are being persecuted

Jour­nal­ist Ari­na Mali­nouskaya was called by the inves­ti­ga­tor via Telegram from the num­ber of her sister’s hus­band Valyantsin Kucharen­ka and said that he and his friend were detained, and now they are plan­ning to detain her grand­par­ents – Valyantsi­na and Ana­tol Mali­nous­ki.

Ari­na was also told that her rel­a­tives would be kept until she came to the Lenin­s­ki Dis­trict Depart­ment of Inter­nal Affairs.

Lat­er in the evening, the sister’s hus­band said that he had been released but there is still no con­tact with him.

In the evening of May 21, secu­ri­ty offi­cers came to the apart­ment where Mali­nouskaya lived tem­porar­i­ly. In addi­tion, the host of “Frankly Speak­ing” is sought through rel­a­tives and acquaintances.After one of the pro­grams about secu­ri­ty offi­cers, for­mer police­men Yahor Emelyanau and Dzmit­ry Kulak­ous­ki, who came to Belsat’s stu­dio in Min­sk, were detained. Also a few days lat­er they came to the stu­dio, where they are shoot­ing the pro­gram “Each of Us”. There were tech­ni­cal staff at the stu­dio, who were even­tu­al­ly detained and charged with vio­lat­ing the Law on Mass Media (Arti­cle 23.5 of the Admin­is­tra­tive Code).