Affiliated media: KYKY, News website

Incident date: December 26, 2022

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, Homiel

Additional information:

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Homiel declared the news website KYKY, its Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook pages, as well as visual materials of the publication (logo, images, digital watermark, etc.) containing the words «KYKY, kyky_org» extremist materials. The media outlet’s Telegram channel was declared «extremist» earlier. According to the Belarusian law, distribution and storage of materials declared extremist provides for administrative responsibility for both publishers and users.