Affiliated media: Infa-Kurier, Newspaper, Website, Social media pages

Incident date: April 5, 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, Slutsk

Additional information:

The Partizansky District Court of Minsk declared the Slutsk-based regional newspaper Infa-Kurier «extremist materials». In addition to the printed edition, the website with the name ‘Kurjer.info-Slutsk’, a VKontakte group with the name «Slutsk Kurier», a group in the social network Odnoklassniki with the name «Slutsk, Slutsk news — newspaper Infa-Kurier», a Facebook page with the name «Slutsk News in Facebook», a Telegram channel with the name ‘Slutsk Telega’, a Telegram chat with the name ‘Slutsk Telega-chat’, a YouTube channel with the name ‘Slutsk, newspaper Infa-Kurier’, an Instagram account with the name ‘Slutsk|kurjer. info’, and the logos of these pages were declared extremist materials.