Aksana Kolb

Affiliated media: Novy Chas, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: May 31, 2021

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus issued an official warning to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Novy Chas Aksana Kolb. The sanction was received for the publications from the issue of April 9. «The authors of the publications used certain expressions and speech token that contributed to tension in society, incitement of hatred and hostility against representatives of the authorities, law-enforcement officers as separate social groups of the population», — the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.