Affiliated media: Current Time, Online media outlet

Incident date: January 5, 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, Vitsebsk

Additional information:

The content of the media project Current Time was declared extremist. The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Vitsebsk declared the websites, social network accounts, YouTube and Telegram channels affiliated with the media outlet «extremist information materials». Based on the court decision, the Ministry of Information of Belarus added these Internet resources to the Republican List of Extremist Materials. According to the Belarusian law, distribution and storage of materials declared extremist provides for administrative liability for both publishers and users.