# 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](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2022-belarus-labels-dw-extremist)
- Source: Belarus authorities sentence journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich to prison, label more media 'extremist'. https://cpj.org/2022/03/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,

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