Affiliated media: Mediazona Belarus, TikTok account

Incident date: March 21, 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, Pukhavichy

Additional information:

The account of the news website Mediazona Belarus in the social network TikTok was declared «extremist information products». The decision was made by the court of the Pukhavichy District of the Minsk Region. Based on the court decision, the Ministry of Information of Belarus added this online media resource to the Republican List of Extremist Materials. According to the Belarusian law, distribution and storage of materials declared extremist provides for administrative liability for both publishers and users.