Volha Klaskouskaya
Affiliated media: Freelance journalist
Incident date: October 4, 2024
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, Maladzechna
Additional information:
The Maladzechna District Court of the Minsk region recognised the Instagram page of Belarusian journalist and former political prisoner Volha Klaskouskaya as «extremist information materials». The Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus added the online resource to the «Republican list of extremist materials» on the basis of the court decision. According to the Belarusian law, distribution and storage of materials recognised as extremist provides for administrative liability for both publishers and users.