vitebsk.biz - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: vitebsk.biz, Online news outlet

Incident date: March 16, 2020

Attack type:

Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Vitebsk

Additional information:

The Ministry of Information made a demand for the dissemination of false information to the owner of the online news outlet. On March, 13 the web-site published an article about the death of the head of the Vitebsk enterprise from the COVID-19. The Ministry of Information referred to the Ministry of Health, according to which at that time in Belarus there were no deaths caused by COVID-19.

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