Affiliated media: Gazeta Slonimskaya, Social and political media

Incident date: August 23, 2022

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Slonim

Additional information:

The Ministry of Information informed about the cancellation of the state registration certificates of the printed mass media — the socio-political media Gazeta Slonimskaya and the advertising newspaper Otdushina. The Ministry justified its decision by the fact that the newspapers had not been issued for six months in a row (Paragraph 2.10 of Part 2 of Article 16 of the Law «On Mass Media»). «Neither Hrodna, Brest, nor Pinsk printing presses took Gazeta Slonimskaya and Otdushina to print, referring to the high workload and tight printing schedule», — the editorial office explained the situation.