Journalist Andrei Kuznechik, working with the Belarusian Service of Radio Liberty, was detained in Minsk. He was placed in the isolation ward of the city administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs..

The website of the service reports this with a link to the volunteer project "

The journalist stopped communicating on November 25. His wife Alesya Rak said that at about five o'clock in the evening he went for a bike ride, but soon returned to the house by four men in civilian clothes who searched their house..

On what grounds and who detained her husband is unknown.

During the search, people in civilian clothes told Rak that the journalist would be detained for several days.. Electronics, phones and cash were seized from the family.

Belarusian authorities crushed independent media in the country after protests following presidential elections in 2020. Then the authorities announced the next, sixth in a row, victory of Alexander Lukashenko. Mass protests continued in large Belarusian cities for more than four months.