accentnews.ge - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: accentnews.ge , Online media (Georgia)

Incident date: April 13, 2022

Attack type:

request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

At the demand of the General Prosecutor’s Office, Roskomnadzor has added two publications of the Georgian online media Accent news — about the participation of natives of the Caucasus in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and about the cancellation of the Kinotavr film festival due to the war — to the register of banned websites .

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