Nasha Niva - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Nasha Niva , Online news outlet

Incident date: April 20, 2020

Attack type:

Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: BAJ - Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The editorial of Nasha Niva received a letter from the Ministry of Information with a request to change the content of the article about the situation with the COVID-19 in a nursing home in Beshenkovichi. The publication received information that there are cases of people being infected from its sources, whereas the Ministry of Information denied that.

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