Affiliated media: Nasha Niva, News website

Incident date: January 21, 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, Minsk

Additional information:

The website and social networks of the online media Nasha Niva were declared «extremist formation». The decision to include the ьувшф in the list of extremist groups was taken on January 21 on the basis of the KGB decision of January 14, informed the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. «A group of citizens of the CHIUP Sorodichi (newspaper Nasha Niva), united through Internet resources, including social networks and messengers, was declared «extremist formation», — reads the statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Law enforcers have repeatedly stated that "individuals who carry out any transfer of information to members of the group are recognized as members of an extremist formation and will be prosecuted under Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (up to seven years of mprisonment).