News on the topic: mass media
30.05.2013 Prosecutor’s Office warns Belsat journalist
Journalist Volha Chaichyts received a written warning from the Prosecutor’s Office of Smaliavichy district for her work with the Poland-based Belsat TV channel, press service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
30.05.2013 State Bodies Reply to BAJ They Can Do Nothing About Arrests of Journalists
The Belarusian Association of Journalists addressed to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Investigative Committee, asking to take actions in the cases of the recent arrests of Dzmitry Halko and Aliaksandr Yarashevich.
29.05.2013 Independent journalists summoned to Prosecutor’s Office
Members of the NGO “Belarusian Association of Journalists”, Volha Chaychyts and Ales Silich, are required to appear in Smaliavichy district Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, May 30, press service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
27.05.2013 Editor and publisher of Krychau independent weekly summoned to court
Siarhei Niarouny, editor of the independent weekly “Vonly Horad” (“Free Town”), together with the newspaper’s publisher Uladzimir Kudrautsau, have been summoned to Krychau District Court as defendants in the suit for protection of goodwill lodged by the Cherykau-based PMK (Mobile Mechanical Division) No. 280.
27.05.2013 Radio Racyja Hrodna journalist receives fifth denial of accreditation
Viktar Parfionenka, journalist of the Poland-based Radio Racyja, received another denial of accreditation from the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a fifth ban over the past five years.
24.05.2013 Homel journalist Anatol Hatouchyts summoned to Prosecutor’s Office
Anatol Hatouchyts, Homel leader of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, was summoned to the regional Prosecutor’s Office. Yesterday, he received a phone call from the senior assistant Prosecutor Dzmitry Deboi and invited to an interview. He explained that the Prosecutor’s Office possessed “evidence that on April 24 Hatouchyts prepared a video story for the satellite channel Belsat about the flood in Homel.”
24.05.2013 ARCHE Re-Registered
The Ministry of Information finally agreed to re-register the independent Belarusian language magazine Arche. Beginning – after six months’ financial inspection and four refusals to re-register the outlet.
21.05.2013 Minsk City Court turns down appeal by Radio Racyja reporter
Minsk City Court heard today appeals lodged by Radio Racyja journalist Aliaksandr Yarashevich and blogger Dzmitry Halko to contest their recent arrests. As a result, the journalist’s appeal was dismissed.
17.05.2013 Independent journalists receive repeated summons to Bialynichy police department
Yauhen Hlushkou, independent journalist from Mahiliou, is summoned to Bialynichy district police department. Another journalist, Alina Skrabunova, was not found at home and is yet to be summoned.
17.05.2013 Editor of state-owned newspaper in Mazyr warned over humiliation of Roma
Deputy Chairman of the executive committee of Mazyr district issued a warning to the editor-in-chief of the local government-run newspaper “Zhytssio Palessia” over repeated publications humiliating the Roma community.
16.05.2013 Slonim school masters face forced subscription to state-owned press
On May 13 all the heads of schools and kindergartens of Slonim district visited the head of the education department of the executive committee of Slonim Tereza Yushkevich (pictured) to show certificates of subscription to the state-owned “Nastaunitskaya Hazeta” (“Teacher's Newspaper”), “Slonimski Vesnik” (run by the district administration), “Hrodzenskaya Prauda”, “Sovetskaya Belorussia” and “Znamia Yunosti.”
15.05.2013 BAJ represents Belarus in the European Federation of Journalists
On 13 May 2013 the Belarusian Association of Journalists became an official member of the European Federation of Journalists.
15.05.2013 BAJ demands Review Proceedings in the Cases of Arrested Journalists
On May 13 the public association BAJ filed official letters to the Investigative Committee, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Home Affairs, and the Prosecutor General, demanding to investigate the allegations of arbitrary detentions and arrests of journalists on May 7 and April 25.
13.05.2013 Independent journalists refuse to come to Bialynichy DPD
Two independent journalists from Mahiliou, Yauhen Hlushkou and Alina Skrabunova, received notices that they needed to come to the Bialynichy District Police Department to police inspector Aliaksandr Yemialyanau at 10 a.m. on 13 May.
08.05.2013 Journalist Hruzdzilovich issued with official warning
Aleh Hruzdzilovich received an official warning, singed by the first deputy prosecutor of Minsk Ramanouski, concerning the article "Who blasted Minsk metro?"
