Ivan Murauyou - Justice for Journalists

Ivan Murauyou

Affiliated media: Freelance videographer

Incident date: April 7, 2023

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus included convicted freelance videographer Ivan Murauyou in the «list of citizens involved in extremist activities». In December 2022, judge of the Minsk City Court Alena Shylko sentenced Murauyou to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony on charges of participation in an «extremist formation» (Part 3 of Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus).

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