{"id":530735,"date":"2026-04-02T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=530735"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:48:10","slug":"reform-news-website-again-declared-extremist-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/reform-news-website-again-declared-extremist-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Reform.news Website Again Declared &#8220;Extremist&#8221; In Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Information Ministry has updated the &#8220;Republican List of Extremist Materials.&#8221; Among other additions, it included the websites of Reform.news, Voice of America and dozens of social media pages.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2024, the ministry added <em><i>&#8220;information materials posted on the website &#8216;Reformation&#8217; with the identifier https:\/\/www.reform.by&#8221;<\/i><\/em> to the list, and in August last year it added the website Reform.news with the identifier &#8220;https:\/\/www.reformby.org&#8221;. This time, the decision concerns the <em><i>&#8220;website called &#8216;Reformation&#8217; with the identifier &#8216;https:\/\/reform.news'&#8221;<\/i><\/em>. The decision was made on March 30, 2026, by the Lenin District Court of Mahiliou.<\/p>\n<p>The updated list also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the website belinstitute.com;<\/li>\n<li>the Telegram channel &#8220;Disident&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Instagram pages &#8220;DAR \u2013 bia\u0142oruska inicjatywa Aktywi\u015bci podw\u00f3rkowi za granic\u0105&#8221;, &#8220;svaboda_dumki&#8221;, &#8220;denis4belarus&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>the VKontakte page &#8220;DysKUT&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>the Odnoklassniki pages &#8220;Andrei Golub&#8221;, &#8220;Tsarev Korol&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Facebook pages &#8220;Tavarystva belaruskaj movy imia F. Skaryny. LIDA&#8221;, &#8220;Dzimitriy Pimenau&#8221;, &#8220;Ruslan Khazin&#8221;, &#8220;Andrei Sannikov&#8221;, &#8220;Ilya Turkov&#8221;, &#8220;Aleh Baradzin&#8221;, &#8220;Alena Lahavaya&#8221;, &#8220;Aliaksandr Knyrovich&#8221;, &#8220;BELARUS POST USSR &amp; WORLD&#8221;, &#8220;BNR 106 Dzen Voli 2024&#8221;, &#8220;Tatsiana Koktysh&#8221;, &#8220;Razmova dnia&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Threads pages &#8220;volyapavuk&#8221;, &#8220;Buben Alexander&#8221;, &#8220;Dzmitryj Spirydau&#8221;, &#8220;adrenalintit&#8221;, &#8220;andruwkevi4&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>TikTok pages &#8220;Lukashenko_Pogoda&#8221;, &#8220;vovaboiko127&#8221;, &#8220;Natalia&#8221;, &#8220;Adidas_2&#8221;, &#8220;tolko_news&#8221;, &#8220;AVANTIURIST.BY&#8221;, &#8220;Novosti Vitebska i oblasti&#8221;, &#8220;Antipol&#8221;, &#8220;NOVOSTI TRETIY REGION&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list also includes pages of additional international human rights organisations. On March 31, the Horki District Court declared the Instagram page &#8220;FIDH \u2014 International Federation for Human Rights&#8221; extremist. On March 27, the Baranavichy and Baranavichy District Court declared the Threads page &#8220;LIBERECO \u2014 Partnership for Human Rights&#8221; extremist.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian authorities regularly use accusations of extremism to target political opponents and dissent in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Information Ministry has updated the &#8220;Republican List of Extremist Materials.&#8221; Among other additions, it included the websites of Reform.news, Voice of America and dozens of social media pages. In March 2024, the ministry added &#8220;information materials posted on the website &#8216;Reformation&#8217; with the identifier https:\/\/www.reform.by&#8221; to the list, and in August last year it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":528381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69ce9dce3b549.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Reform.news Website Again Declared &#171;Extremist&#187; In Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}