Affiliated media: Media IQ, News website

Incident date: July 4, 2024

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:

Three articles on Media IQ's site were designated as extremist materials by a Partizanskiy district court in Minsk. The articles are as follows: 'Serious battle for the best fake-news factory: Belarusian state media channels accuse Western media of exacerbating the Russia-Ukraine situation' 'Constitutional Referendum: legal mechanisms at the centre of attention, but not the essence of the proposed changes' 'It's only one step from 'We can defend' to 'We can repeat': How the militaristic narrative changed in Belarus.' A little earlier, on June 13th the Ministry of Information added Media IQ's website and social networks to its list of 'extremist materials'.