Nasha Niva - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Nasha Niva, News website

Incident date: August 8, 2020

Attack type:

Prosecution for dissemination of false information and fakes (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The editorial office of the website received an official letter from the Ministry of Information demanding to remove the article about early voting in the presidential election. In this article, an independent observer reported possible falsification. The Ministry of Information stated that the observer's calculations were untrue and demanded to remove the article within two hours.

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