Affiliated media: Belsat, TV channel

Incident date: November 3, 2021

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 declared the TV channel Belsat and its Internet resources «extremist formation». «By the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a group of citizens, united through the Internet resources of Belsat, is declared an extremist formation, and its activities are banned on the territory of the Republic of Belarus», — reads the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Belsat is a Polish satellite TV channel in Belarusian and Russian languages. Earlier, July 27, 2021, the court declared the TV channel Belsat and its social networks accounts «extremist materials».