Nasha Niva - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Nasha Niva, News Outlet

Incident date: July 8, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

On the morning of 8 July, the website of the Belarusian independent publication, Nasha Niva, stopped working. The site was not accessible in Belarus or abroad. The Ministry of Information claimed to have blocked it based on a notification from the Prosecutor General's Office, citing the spread of prohibited information.

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