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Belsat TV’s site, social media accounts labeled extremist group by police
November 03, 2021
Belarusian journalists and BAJ won Free Media Awards
November 03, 2021
Belarusian authorities block access to website of Russia’s Regnum news agency
The website of Russia’s Regnum news agency stopped being accessible to users in Belarus on Saturday.
November 01, 2021
Journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn charged with treason. He faces up to 15 years in prison
October 31, 2021
Journalist Iryna Slaunikava arrested for “distribution of extremist materials” for 15 days
October 31, 2021
Belarusian authorities block access to three news websites
Three more news websites were made inaccessible to users in Belarus on October 28 by order of the country’s information ministry.
The sites are those of Belarus’ newspaper Novy Čas, as well as of Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and of Current Time TV, a Russian-language television channel launched by U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with participation of Voice of America.
October 29, 2021
Local news site ЕХ-PRЕSS.ВY designated extremist
The content of the local news site ЕХ-PRЕSS.ВY has been designated extremist at the request of the Barysaŭ District Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday.
ЕХ-PRЕSS.ВY covers news in Barysaŭ and Žodzina, two cities in the Minsk region. According to the ЕХ-PRЕSS.ВY editorial team, some 100,000 people visit the website every day.
In addition, the “extremist” label has been slapped on the content of a Telegram chat that unites residents of the city of Šarkaŭščyna in the Viciebsk region. The decision has been made at the request of the Šarkaŭščyna District Prosecutor’s Office.
October 26, 2021
Authorities block access to news website Telegraf.by
October 22, 2021
Prominent journalist rearrested following his release after three days in jail
Minsk, 21 October. A prominent journalist was rearrested immediately after being released in a courtroom in the Mahilioŭ region on Wednesday, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ).
October 22, 2021
Novy Chas editors searched and interrogated
October 21, 2021
Detention of BelaPAN director general extended by two more months
October 19, 2021
No release for journalist Andrej Skurko after three months in detention
Andrej Skurko, a prominent journalist and the head of the online publication Naša Niva’s advertising and marketing department, was not released on October 17 after a three-month detention.
October 19, 2021
Siarhei Niarouny’s trial over extremism postponed to Wednesday
October 19, 2021
LETTERS FROM LUKASHENKA’S PRISONERS: Katsyaryna Andreeva
October 18, 2021
Judge rejects appeal against Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist’s detention
October 15, 2021
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