BelGazeta - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: BelGazeta, Newspaper

Incident date: October 31, 2020

Attack type:

  • Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

National non-state periodical newspapers BelGazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, Narodnaya Volya, and SNplus. Svobodnye Novosti Plus were denied a distribution via subscription. The state monopolistic enterprise Belposhta did not include these newspapers in the subscription catalogue for the first half of 2021.

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