YouTube channel ТОК|TALK - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: YouTube channel ТОК|TALK, YouTube channel

Incident date: November 20, 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, Minsk

Additional information:

The Tsentralny District Court of Minsk declared the YouTube channel TOK|TALK (identifier youtube.com/@TOK_talk) an «extremist information product». It is a video channel, which hosts interviews with famous Belarusians and has 38.8 thousand subscribers. The Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus added the Internet 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 declared extremist materials provides for administrative liability for both publishers and users.

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