Channel About Belarusian Cinema Added to List of “Extremist Materials”

The Ministry of Information has updated its list of “extremist materials”. The channel “Чат “Белавуд говорит!” (“Chat ‘Belavud Speaks!'”) was added to the list following a ruling by the Partyzansky District Court of Minsk.

The following were also added to the list:

• Telegram resources “Склад Dapamoga” and “Кондратенко Виталий virus”,
• the book “Chronicle of State Villainy. What Happened to General Yury Zakharchenko, How and Why. – Minsk, 2005. – 215 pages” (the list apparently contains a typo and refers to missing former Belarusian Interior Minister Yury Zakharanka – Reform.news editor’s note),
• the private Viber chat “АДВОКАТЫ МГКА“,
• the TikTok account “BY_NOW”.

In Belarus, extremism charges are used to persecute opponents of Lukashenka and suppress dissent more broadly.