Belsat - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Belsat, Instagram page

Incident date: October 24, 2024

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, Maladzyechna

Additional information:

The court of the Maladzyechna District of the Minsk Region declared the Belsat TV channel’s Instagram account an «extremist information product». It is a page with the name belsat_doc, it is dedicated to documentary cinema. The Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus added the Internet resource to the Republican List of Extremist Materials on the basis of the court decision.

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