News on the topic: mass media
17.07.2012 Photographer facing criminal charge over teddy bear stunt
The Committee for State Security (KGB) has extended to 10 days the detention of young photographer Anton Surapin, who is formally suspected of helping foreigners illegally enter Belarus.
16.07.2012 Photographer Anton Surapin detained for three days
They will check whether he is connected with the teddy bears incident.
13.07.2012 KGB searches home of photographer of “Swedish teddy bears”
Security services officers are figuring out from where a journalist has photos of teddy bears. Editor of the website bnp.by Anton Surapin managed to say KGB officers came to him to carry out a search. They want to find out from where the photographer has photos of “Swedish teddy bears”.
12.07.2012 Dziarzhynsk: persecution of traffickers of bulletin “For Free Elections”
On 11 July Hrodna activists of the Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World” Viktar Mikhalchyk and Pavel Staneuski were carrying copies of the bulletin “For Free Elections” in their car. On the territory of the Dziarzhynsk district their car was overtaken by a road police patrol.
06.07.2012 Minsk City Court leaves journalist Pavel Sviardlou in jail
Minsk City Court has considered the appeal lodged by Euroradio journalist Pavel Sviardlou today, on 6 July. Only the lawyer attended the hearing.
06.07.2012 State-owned press of Brest region promotes pro-governmental candidates
One can determine the prospective pro-regime candidates to the House of Representatives by looking through June issues of state-owned newspapers of the Brest region.
02.07.2012 “Arshanskaya Hazeta” starts early agitation for future pro-government candidate
Issue #73 of the state-owned “Ashanskaya Hazeta” newspaper of 30 June contains an interview with the head of the Orsha City Executive Committee Mikalai Lisouski.
30.06.2012 Andrzej Pochobut released under his own recognizance
The journalist of Gazeta Wyborcza has been let off form Hrodna prison today, on June 30.
29.06.2012 Belsat TV journalists detained again
Police detained journalists Yulia Tsyalpuk and Alyaksandr Barazenka.
29.06.2012 Pavel Svyardlou's appeal disappears
It was lost somewhere in the corridors of Minsk police.
29.06.2012 Hrodna journalists support Andrei Pachobut
A number of Hrodna journalists have sent an open letter to the Prosecutor General of Belarus, expressing their protests against the criminal charges brought against reporter Andrei Pachobut.
28.06.2012 Pavel Svyardlou's appeal to be considered on June 29
It has been sent to Minsk city court.
27.06.2012 Committee to Protect Journalists: Belarusian authorities are taking revenge for the truth
Belarusian authorities should immediately release a critical journalist who was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison.
27.06.2012 Journalist risks jail for criticizing President: Urgent appeal by Amnesty International
A journalist, Andrzej Poczobut, is at risk of being sentenced to five years imprisonment in Belarus after being arrested for criticizing the Belarusian President. He is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.
22.06.2012 Journalist Pavel Sviardlou sentenced to 15 days of arrest
Judge Tatsiana Matyl of Minsk Maskouski District Court has sentenced Euroradio reporter Pavel Sviardlou to 15 days of administrative arrest on “disorderly conduct” charges.
