{"id":105558,"date":"2024-09-18T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/105558\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"yandex-music-removes-tor-band-songs","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/105558\/","title":{"rendered":"Yandex Music takes down Tor Band songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo_2023-10-31_11-32-22.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo_2023-10-31_11-32-22.jpg 744w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo_2023-10-31_11-32-22-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n      <div class=\"block-image__descr\">\n\n        Left to right: Andrej Jarem\u010dyk, Ja\u016dhien Bur\u0142o, D\u017amitry Ha\u0142ava\u010d \n    <\/div>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Viasna)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>September 18, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Yandex Music, a Russian music streaming service, has removed songs by the Belarusian Tor Band at the request of Homiel district prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prosecutors said that in 2022, a court in Homiel found Tor Band music to be extremist content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service also deleted content from the Belarusian independent <em>malanka.media<\/em> and speeches by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, the prosecutors added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tor Band was famous for its patriotic songs in 2020. Belarus has declared its &#8220;information products, social media and logo&#8221; extremist and sentenced the musicians to 7.5\u20139 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spisok_unsplash_ron_dyar_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> \u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">\u041f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Interior ministry adds 17 political prisoners, 20 others to its extremist list<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">September 13, Pozirk. The interior ministry has added 37 new names to the list of \u201cpersons involved in extremist activities,\u201d taking the total of entries to 4,436, its website says. Rights groups consider 17 of them political prisoners, including D\u017amitryj &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/104862\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 18, Pozirk. Yandex Music, a Russian music streaming service, has removed songs by the Belarusian Tor Band at the request of Homiel district prosecutors. The prosecutors said that in 2022, a court in Homiel found Tor Band music to be extremist content. The service also deleted content from the Belarusian independent malanka.media and speeches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":58306,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-105558","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yandex Music takes down Tor Band songs | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 18, Pozirk. 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