Affiliated media: globalnews.ca (Canada) , News website
Incident date: September 18, 2022
Attack type:
- Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Telegram channel Roskomsvoboda
Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow
Additional information:
The news website globalnews.ca (Canada) was blocked upon the request of the General Prosecutor’s Office. The reason for the blocking was an article about the motives behind the Russian army’s «special military operation» in Ukraine, which characterized the actions of the Russian authorities as «colonialism» and described facts that had been disseminated in the international press, which the official Russian Federation preferred to consider fakes.