Helsingin Sanomat - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Helsingin Sanomat, News website (Finland)

Incident date: May 6, 2023

Attack type:

request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor has blocked a report by the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat from the Ukrainian city of Bucha as part of military censorship. The entire section of the newspaper's website with Russian-language publications was blocked in Russia in 2022.

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