Affiliated media: YouTube channel 'Media Polesye', Youtube Channel

Incident date: July 22, 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, Hantsavichy

Additional information:

The Youtube Channel for independent regional news site 'Media Polesye' has been designated as 'extremist content' by a Hantsavichy district court in the Brest region. The decision was handed down by judge Oksana Zotkina at the request of local prosecutor Aleksandr Gurbanovich. Based on the court's decision, the Ministry of Information added the resource to its 'Republic List of Extremist Materials'.