UzGorak - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: UzGorak, Newspaper website

Incident date: September 22, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Gorki

Additional information:

UzGorak, the last independent newspaper in the Mogilev region, stopped circulating. The editorial board said nothing in the last issue about the reason for this decision. According to unconfirmed information, at the beginning of September, the law enforcers took interest in the newspaper and searched the apartments of a number of employees of UzGorak.

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