On May 3, 2024, the State Security Committee of Belarus added several media resources of the FreeInfoBel project to its list of so-called "extremist groups." They also identified specific individuals they believed were connected to the project—Volha Pashkevich and Iosif Dulebo. FreeInfoBel's inclusion was only revealed five days later, on May 8.
It's currently unknown what criminal case the man is being held on, but it's likely related to "extremism." It has been learned that Dulebo was initially detained on administrative charges. However, when the time came for his release from the temporary detention facility, Dulebo was not released; he was transferred to a pretrial detention center.
The man previously headed the Vitebsk division of the Belarusian Popular Front, but withdrew from party affairs in the early 2000s.
