Oleg Suprunyuk

Affiliated media: The First Region, News Editor

Incident date: July 8, 2021

Attack type:

• Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona.Belarus

Location: Belarus, Brest

Additional information:

Courts fined Oleg Suprunyuk, news editor of The First Region (“Pieršy Rehijon”) website, 580 rubles for “disseminating extremist materials” (Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Administrative Code). This followed the publishing of a photograph, in which a man was allegedly wearing a t-shirt with a swastika logo.