However, on December 5 of the same year, the Central District Court in Minsk declared the website "extremist".
Since February 2024, users in Belarus can only access it through VPN services.
[4][5] On December 19, 2024, the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs designated the whole Pozirk news agency as an extremist group.
[6][7] BelaPAN journalists and editors were forced to flee Belarus as the government banned the country's oldest independent news agency in 2021.
[6] "Pozirk" means "look", "glance" or "gaze" in Belarusian.