Bialynichy: entrepreneur is recommended to stop distributing independent press
These days the shop of Bialynichy
entrepreneur Mikalai Miatselitsa has been visited by an officer of
Bialynichy District Police Department.
The policeman showed
no interest in any goods, but insistently recommended that
entrepreneur Mikalai Miatselitsa stop doing silly things, meaning the
distribution of small-circulation and democratically oriented
newspapers. He stated that the entrepreneur could have trouble with
his business affairs otherwise.
Mikalai Miatselitsa says that
he reacted to the policeman's warning calmly: "I said that we
didn't violate any Belarusian laws, the small-circulation newspapers
were issued in conformity with the Law "On Mass Media" and
anybody could get them in the shop without any restrictions. That's
why we will continue distributing democratic editions."
The
small-circulation newspapers "Rehiyon", "Pakhodnia"
and "Mahiliouski Vybar" are distributed in Bialynichy at
shops of several democratically-minded entrepreneurs. Mikalai
Miatselitsa is the deputy head of Bialynichy district branch of the
Belarusian Popular Front Party and the Movement "Belarusian
Popular Front "Adradzhenne".
