Affiliated media: Media Polesye, Facebook account

Incident date: May 18, 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, Pinsk

Additional information:

Facebook group 'Media Polesye', belonging to independent regional news site 'Media-Polesye' has been designated 'extremist content' by a Pinsk city and district court. The decision was handed down by judge Sergei Bezruchko. Based on the court's decision, the Ministry of Information added the page to its 'Republic List of Extremist Materials'.