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  • The website and social media pages of Intex-press, the most popular Baranavichy newspaper, were recognized as extremist

    We are talking about a large non-governmental regional editorial office Intex-press.by, as well as its media pages on Instagram, Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Tiktok, Telegram, and YouTube. 

    It is essen­tial­ly equiv­a­lent to killing this pop­u­lar news­pa­per, since from now on any cre­ation, dis­tri­b­u­tion, and even stor­age of mate­ri­als of the news­pa­per will be inter­pret­ed by the author­i­ties as an offense or a crime, which entails a fine and arrest.

    The Intex-press was also pub­lished on paper until 2021, until Dom Druku uni­lat­er­al­ly refused to print the news­pa­per

    On April 29, a court hear­ing was held where a cor­re­spond­ing deci­sion was made, reports Nash Kray, the state-run com­peti­tor of Intex-press.

    In Feb­ru­ary, the secu­ri­ty forces already came to Intex-press and seized all the equip­ment.

    The region­al inde­pen­dent press is being con­sis­tent­ly destroyed in Belarus. On the morn­ing of March 15, in Vilei­ka, the house of the edi­tor-in-chief of the Region­al News­pa­per Ali­ak­san­dr Mant­se­vich was searched and he was detained. Mant­se­vich is accused of «spread­ing delib­er­ate­ly false infor­ma­tion dis­cred­it­ing Belarus and its author­i­ties.» 

    In ear­ly April, a Slut­sk news­pa­per Infa-Kuri­er announced its clo­sure after all its texts were rec­og­nized as extrem­ist mate­ri­als. The day before, the news­pa­per’s edi­to­r­i­al office was searched. The edi­tor-in-chief of the news­pa­per Siarhei Stanke­vich and his deputy Aleh Rubche­nia were detained. They were sen­tenced to 15 days of admin­is­tra­tive arrest.

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