Ruslan Kulevich - Justice for Journalists

Ruslan Kulevich

Affiliated media: Online media MOST, Journalist

Incident date: January 23, 2023

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, Hrodna

Additional information:

The accounts of the Hrodna-based journalist Ruslan Kulevich in Facebook, Instagram, VKontakte, and Odnoklassniki were declared «extremist materials». This decision was taken by the Leninsky District Court of Hrodna. The journalist left the country back in 2020 due to persecution by law enforcers and founded the multimedia project MOST in Polish Bialystok.

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