Novy Chas - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Novy Chas, Online media outlet, Social networks accounts

Incident date: January 5, 2024

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 Ministry of Information included the online media outlet Novy Chas in the Republican List of Extremist Materials. Based on the decision of the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk of December 22, 2023, the website of the media resource, YouTube channel and accounts in the social networks Facebook, TikTok, X (Twitter), Instagram and VKontakte were declared «extremist materials».

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