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Editorial board of independent socio-political website gets evicted from office

2011 2011-06-03T16:51:40+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en https://spring96.org/files/images/sources/cenzura_u_internet.jpg The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

The editorial board of the socio-political website ex-press.by, created by journalists of the private socio-political newspaper Kur'yer z Barysava (closed down before the 2006 presidential election), is evicted from the rented office.

The website is very popular in the region. Many other Internet editions use its information, knowing that its materials are credible and don't need to be subject to additional verification. The website is visited by about 5,000 users a day.

However, workers of the website feel a constant pressurization on the part of the authorities: they tried to rent an office six times and received only negative answers, and the citizens who provided them with information were invited for “talks” by the local KGB. There is a suspicion that the journalists are watched and their e-mail correspondence and telephone talks are controlled.

Today the owner of the office they have rented for 1.5 years has asked them to vacate the premises.

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