Claim 697

Warning issued alongside the designation.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Warning issued alongside the designation.
Field: effect_on_reporting
Value: Even subscribing to a labeled Telegram channel risks prosecution
About: incident 2022-belarus-labels-dw-extremist
Source: Belarus authorities sentence journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich to prison, label more media 'extremist'
Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2022-03-11

Quotation from the source

The MDCOCC announcement about DW warned of prosecution even for subscribing to Telegram channels and chats of outlets designated as extremist.