Pavel Spirin

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: February 5, 2021

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: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The Minsk City Court sentenced blogger Pavel Spirin to four and a half years in prison for “deliberately inciting racial, national, religious or other social hatred” (Article 130 of the Criminal Code). The accusations stemmed from two videos that Spirin posted on YouTube.