Matolka, Zhyhar, Herasimenia and Dozens of Sticker Packs Added as Information Ministry Expands “Extremist Materials” List

The Information Ministry has once again updated its list of so-called “extremist materials”.

The latest additions include Facebook accounts belonging to a number of activists and journalists. Among them are the accounts of Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Katsiaryna Yerusalimskaya, Uladzimir Zhyhar, Anton Matolka and Pavel Marynich.

The updated list also includes:

• Telegram channels and groups “Volny chor” (Choir of Free Belarusians), “Stachkom Grodno Khimvolokno” and its logo, “Libertarian Movement of Belarus”, “GAI Pastavy”, “BelarusWithUkraine”, “Kolasa-Vostochnaya-Belinskogo-Melezha”, “Fastsiya”, “Sampo”;
• Facebook accounts “Political Prisoners of Belarus”, “Libertarian Movement of Belarus”, “Vyachaslau Holik”, “Belsat in Russian”, “Ales Solik”, “Stefan Kulčanka”, “Alena Dziadziulia”, “Michael Kucherov”;
• TikTok accounts “Zheka Pobeda”, “p3_benjamin_2010”, “Maks_by”, @alexandrrudenok, “Alexandr Rudenok”, “Christians Against War”;
• Instagram accounts “alexandrrudenok76097”, “freeebelarus_1”, “polackija_labirynty” (Polackija Labirynty Publishing House), “dignityinstitute”, “soncau.d”, “unidby”, “belaruski varushnyak”, “bulbamovie”;
• Threads accounts “UkrBel”, “Volha Ageyeva”, “amplitudal 8”, “Viktoriya Voloshchenko”, “Andjei Caffete” (@_don_dron_), “Zerkalo. News” (@zerkalo_io_news), “in_victus_1863tattoo”, “Valery Babaian”, “Franak Viacorka”;
• VK pages “Libertarian Movement of Belarus”, “Vyachaslau Holik”;
• Odnoklassniki accounts “Raman Mishchanka”, “We Are Against Decree No. 3”;
• YouTube channels “Ratsiya”, “PERSHY HALASY rehiyonau Belarusi”;
• the “PINSKLife” website;
• Telegram sticker packs “Zhyve Belarus”, “Luka”, “plakaty”, “Dziakuy!”, “Knizhny Voz”, “Kastusiok”, “Kus za Belarus”, “Peraseka”, “Zhyve Belarus!”, “Belarus peradusim!”, “Belarus BChB”, “Belarus”, “Belarus Memnaya (BM)”, “Belarus:) by”, “Maya Kraina Belarus”, “Belarus gang”, “-zashkvarka”, “baranovichi”, “INeedHelpBy”, “Strana Dlya Zhizni”, “@tut_bay”, “Narodnaya Hramada”, “CatFree_pack”, “vybory2020”, “khlopotnoye deltse”, “freebelarus”, “yagulyayu”, “lyudirb”, “by”, “Politzekme”, “Serebryanka Partizanskaya”, “Byarm”, “BelUkr by”, “kara_bel”, “Flags”, “Zhyve belarusik”, “razam”, “Conversations in “, “basta_bel”, “Pahonia”, “Belarus golovnogo mozga”, “Miron”, “Malawanycz”, “Rebels!”, “Belsat”, “Belaruskija symbali”, “Stsyah Belarusi”, “Chay z malinovym varennem”, “belball”, “Sasha 3%”, “NEXTA”.

Authorities in Belarus have used extremism-related charges to prosecute opponents of Aliaksandr Lukashenka and suppress dissent more broadly.