Mikalai Sharakh

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: March 7, 2023

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Polatsk

Additional information:

The court of Polatsk and Polatsk District arrested the journalist Mikalai Sharakh for 15 days. Judge Raisa Shturo declared him guilty of distributing extremist materials (Part 2 of Article 19.11 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus). The grounds were subscriptions to the Internet resources BYSOL/Belarus solidarity foundation and BY_help, declared by the Belarusian authorities «extremist materials».