Affiliated media: European Radio for Belarus, Accounts in Odnoklassniki and VKontakte social networks

Incident date: April 17, 2023

Attack type:

• Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Белорусская ассоциация журналистов

Location: Belarus, Svietlahorsk

Additional information:

The Svietlahorsk District Court of the Homel Region recognised the content of the accounts of European Radio for Belarus in Russian social networks as «extremist materials». It concerns the page «Euroradio — News of Belarus» in Odnoklassniki (https://ok.ru/euroradio), as well as a similar page in VKontakte (https://vk.com/euroradio). The Ministry of Information of Belarus added these Internet resources to the Republican List of Extremist Materials on the basis of the court decision. According to the Belarusian law, distribution and storage of materials recognised as extremist provides for administrative liability for both publishers and users.