Journalist Dzianis Nosau detained for 15 days over sharing a post

He appeared in a video pub­lished in the Sixth Region pro-regime Telegram chan­nel.

Law enforce­ment arrest­ed Dzia­n­is Nosau, a jour­nal­ist of Vech­erniy Bobruisk on 8 April 2024, Medi­a­zona Belarus report­ed.

The jour­nal­ist said he was detained because he had been for­ward­ing “extrem­ist mate­ri­als” to his con­tacts on Telegram since 2020. He claimed to have been sub­scribed to “extrem­ist” chan­nels to be “aware of what is going on” after the full-scale war in Ukraine start­ed.

In the video, Dzia­n­is Nosau also says he will be sent to a tem­po­rary deten­tion facil­i­ty as a pun­ish­ment for his actions. Medi­a­zona informs he was sen­tenced to 15 days for shar­ing “extrem­ist mate­ri­als” (Arti­cle 19.11 of the Admin­is­tra­tive Offens­es Code).