Claim 698

Scale of Belarus's use of the extremist label against media by this point.

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

Statement: Scale of Belarus's use of the extremist label against media by this point.
Field: action
Value: Designation brings the total to 20 outlets
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 designations of DW and Regionalnaya Gazeta as extremist takes the number of media outlets labelled as such to 20,