Decree number 60 - the first victims

For two days the site of the newspaper “Vitebsk Courier” has not been working. According to the founder of the newspaper, access is denied due to an application for blocking the site.

The resource itself, located at kurier.vitebsk.by, is served by the Vitebsk branch of RUE Beltelecom. Currently, access to the news site via Facebook and Twitter .

“We are afraid that the website’s shutdown is due to the entry into force of the new decree on regulating the Internet,” said Olga Karach, the founder of the newspaper. She noted that the newspaper’s website did not go through the registration procedure established by decree. “We did not apply for registration for ideological reasons. We consider this an attempt to further strengthen the censorship of the media, ”the news agency BelaPAN quotes Olga