YouTube channel Zahlianie Sonza - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Zahlianie Sonza, YouTube channel

Incident date: April 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 Tsentralny District Court of Minsk declared the Instagram page of blogger Mikita Melkaziorau (identifier instagram.com/ya_ne_trogal_ya_prosto_smotrel) and the page of his project called Zahlianie Sonza on YouTube (identifier youtube.com/@zahlianie_sonza) «extremist information materials». The Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus added the resource to the Republican List of Extremist Materials on the basis of the court decision.

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