Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has condemned this week’s ban on the Euronews website by her country’s authoritarian government as “shameful.”<\/p>\n
“[President Alexander Lukashenko’s] regime has branded Euronews, a leading European news platform, ‘extremist’ for bringing the truth to millions of Belarusians,” Tsikhanouskaya wrote on X late on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“This attacks media freedom and turns viewers into targets of repression.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, a court in the former Soviet republic’s Mogilev region added the Euronews website to a list of “extremist materials.”<\/p>\n
The site is now blocked in Belarus – closely allied to Russia – with the storing or distribution of its content now punishable by fines and imprisonment.<\/p>\n
Broadcasting of Euronews’ television programming was already banned in Belarus in 2021.<\/p>\n
Minsk’s additional step against the outlet is another response to its critical reporting, according to Tsikhanouskaya.<\/p>\n
The former teacher entered politics during the 2020 Belarusian presidential election after the arrest of her husband, a prominent pro-democracy blogger. She continues her opposition to Lukashenko – who has ruled the republic since 1994 – from exile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has condemned this week’s ban on the Euronews website by her country’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1994,943,1993,1771,113,400],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-authoritarian-government","tag-belarusian","tag-civil-rights-activist","tag-euronews","tag-president-alexander-lukashenko","tag-svetlana-tikhanovskaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}