Radio Svaboda - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Radio Svaboda, Mobile application Radio Svaboda RFER/RL

Incident date: January 30, 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, Vitsebsk

Additional information:

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Vitsebsk declared the mobile application Radio Svaboda RFER/RL for Android devices «extremist information materials». The Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus added the resource to the Republican List of Extremist Materials on the basis of the court decision.

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