Affiliated media: Hrodna.life, Online publication

Incident date: April 1, 2019

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Grodno

Additional information:

The representative of the authorities threatened the publication with a court trial for publishing a humorous April Fools’ note and demanded to remove it from the website. In the memo, the editors joked that “Grodno will become a sister city of Nur-Sultan, and Nazarbayev will be put in place of Chapaev”. The case did not reach the court.