Affiliated media: Media-Polesye, Online media outlet

Incident date: April 15, 2024

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The Operational and Analytical Centre under the President of Belarus deprived the independent online edition Media-Polesye.by of the domain in the Belarusian segment of the Internet — in the .by zone. The notice about the cancellation of the domain name was sent to the editorial office of the media outlet, signed by the deputy head of the Centre Siarhei Zhernosek. The website of Media-Polesye was included in the Republican List of Extremist Materials, compiled by the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus, on the basis of court rulings, in April 2022.