Affiliated media: Ukr.net (Ukraine), Online news website

Incident date: February 5, 2025

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, Horki

Additional information:

The court of the Horki District of the Mogilev Region has recognized the Ukrainian website “ukr.net” (ukr.net) as extremist information content. Based on the court’s decision, the Ministry of Information of Belarus has added the internet resource to the Republican List of Extremist Materials. According to Belarusian law, the distribution and storage of materials recognised as extremist entail administrative liability for both publishers and users.