Human rights defender sues Life:) for blocking opposition websites
Aleh Matskevich wants to find out why the closed joint
stock company BeST, a provider of mobile communications in Belarus, blocks
the access to the websites charter97.org, belaruspartisan.org and prokopovi.ch
at its 3G life service.
According to belarda.org, he addressed the company with an appropriate inquiry,
and received an answer from Mrs. Chaikouskaya, Chair of the telephone
subscription service, where it is stated that the access to these website is
blocked by somebody else, not by them.
Being dissatisfied with such an answer, Mr. Matskevich decided to prepare a
lawsuit against BeST in order to find the truth. Meanwhile, at the end
of April the General Procuracy of Belarus had ordered to block the
access to charter97.org and belaruspartisan.org at state institutions and
cultural and educational institutions.
