The corresponding decision was made on December 14, 2022 by

Alena Kovalchuk

, a judge of the Lenin court in Brest .

The decision concerns the website of the newspaper - carkva-gazeta.by, as well as communities in the social networks "Vkontakte" and Facebook called "Tsarkva", writes "Brestia Vyasna".

At the beginning of November in Brest, the editor of "Church"

Igor Baranovsky

was detained, as well as the priest of the Greek-Catholic Church

Igor Kondratiev

.

Both served administrative arrest.

After 2020, the authorities are actively persecuting priests for their words during sermons, posts on social networks, and condemnation of the violence of security forces.

In 2022, a number of priests in Belarus were detained, searched, called to the police and the KGB, arrested and prosecuted.

The "Christian Vision" group recorded 24 such cases.

In total, this year alone at least 8 Roman Catholic, 3 Greek Catholic, 6 Orthodox priests and 7 Protestant pastors faced various forms of pressure from Lukashenka's regime.

The power struggle against non-state media

In 2020–2021, a number of independent newspapers of national and regional volume stopped being published.

Most of the newspapers stopped publication due to political pressure after publication - they were not allowed to continue publishing in Belarus.

Problems with printing presses arose before the editors of the publications:

  • "Belgazeta",

  • "Brest newspaper",

  • "Gazeta Slonimskaya",

  • "Information walk",

  • "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus"

  • "Leader-press".

  • "People's Will",

  • "New Time",

  • "Regional newspaper",

  • "Free News Plus",

  • "Hantsov time".

Many editorial offices and journalists' homes were searched.

Some newsrooms were searched several times.

Financial problems caused the closure of two more independent newspapers popular in their regions.

At the beginning of last year, the publication of "Borysovsky News" ceased to be published, and at the end of 2020, the last issue of the newspaper "Volnoye Glybokaye" was published.

A number of non-governmental information portals also encountered problems.

Products of websites and social networks of such mass media as:

  • "Belsat"

  • "Belarusian Partisan"

  • "Our Niva"

  • Radio Svaboda

  • Express.by

  • By.tribuna.com

  • Tut.by

  • "Brest newspaper"

In Vorsha, by the decision of the prosecutor's office, the regional portal Orsha.eu was blocked, in Gomla "Svobodnye Novosti Plus", in Vitebsk "Vitebsky Kurier".

Some editors themselves decided to stop the publication of paper versions, such as "Inform-walk" in Luninka or "UzHorak" in Gorky.