Dzmitry Semchanka

Affiliated media: All-National TV, Journalist, Former employee

Incident date: June 14, 2023

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 KGB of Belarus included the convicted ex-journalist of the state TV channel ONT Dzmitry Semchanka in the «list of organisations and individuals involved in terrorist activities». In March 2023, the Minsk City Court sentenced the journalist to three years in a general regime colony on charges of «inciting hatred» (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus).