Affiliated media: Media-Polesye, News website

Incident date: April 8, 2022

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, Luninets

Additional information:

The Luninets District Court declared the information products published on the media-polesye.by website and its social networks pages on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki «extremist materials». The hearing was presided by judge Katsiaryna Klevzhyts and attended by prosecutor Aliaksandr Kokhovets. The court considered the application of the prosecutor, who called such articles as «Tsikhanouskaya congratulated the Belarusian people with 2021», etc. information of extremist and anti-state orientation and considered the conclusions of the regional commission for evaluation of symbols and attributes and information products for extremism in them justified.