Affiliated media: Hrodna.life, News website

Incident date: September 27, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Белорусская ассоциация журналистов

Location: Belarus, Hrodna

Additional information:

The website Hrodna.Life stopped opening from the territory of Belarus. Instead of it a standard message, is shows that the access is restricted on the basis of the decision of the Ministry of Information. The decision to block the website was signed by acting prosecutor of the Hrodna Region Eduard Burak. The ruling names two reasons for such a decision: some articles accompanied by video materials negatively characterising the post-election campaign of Belarus and discrediting the activities of the state law-enforcement bodies; Hrodna Life Media editors Aliaksei Shota and Iryna Novik were brought to administrative responsibility for distribution of extremist materials.