NEXTA-Live - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: NEXTA-Live, Telegram-channel

Incident date: October 20, 2020

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: The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The Central Court of Minsk declared the NEXTA-Live Telegram channel and the NEXTA logo are extremist. The court ruled that the NEXTA-Live Telegram channel “contains information products (videos, appeals and publications both on behalf of the channel’s editors and subscribers) with signs of extremist activity, namely: organisation and public calls for the implementation of mass riots.”

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