News on the topic: mass media
28.05.2012 Journalist Maryna Koktysh detained, searched at Lithuanian border
Journalist Maryna Koktysh became the latest critic of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government to be taken off a train and detained by Belarusian customs officers at the Lithuanian border.
25.05.2012 Journalist appeals confiscation of printed materials
Yulia Kanapliova, journalist of the Vitsebski Kurier independent newspaper, has lodged a complaint with Orsha court.
23.05.2012 Minks police detain Belsat TV crew
A crew of the Poland-based Belsat independent TV channel has been detained by Minsk police this afternoon, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, quoting Belsat’s spokeperson Mikhas Yanchuk.
21.05.2012 Vitsebsk police detain pregnant journalist
Vitsebsk police keep harassing the staff of local independent newspaper Vitsebski Kurier, as the weekly’s reporter Yulia Kanapliova was detained by road police on 20 May.
18.05.2012 Independent journalist Larysa Shchyrakova summoned to Homel Prosecutor’s Office
Homel journalist Larysa Shchyrakova has been summoned to Homel Regional Prosecutor’s Office. The journalist fears she may receive a warning for contributing to foreign media.
15.05.2012 Belarusian customs officers seize laptop from Danish journalist
On 12 May customs officers at Minsk-2 airport carried out a 4-hour examination of a Danish journalist Jens Nilsen.
11.05.2012 Who hires internet-trolls?
A freelance site offers a project to troll pro-opposition Internet forums in Belarus.
08.05.2012 Mahiliou: Siarhei Niahatsin’s appeal turned down
On 8 May Siarhei Koneu, Judge of the Mahiliou Regional Court, turned down the appeal of civil activist against the verdict of the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou, according to which he had been sentenced to a fine for distributing the unregistered newspaper “Tut i Tsiaper” without a special distribution agreement.
07.05.2012 Babruisk: Anatol Sanatsenka receives a come-off from tax inspection
The editor of the private socio-political newspaper “Babruiski Kur’yer” Anatol Sanatsenka received an official answer to his appeal, signed by the deputy head of the Babruisk tax inspection Yury Tarabuyeu.
07.05.2012 Radio “Racyja” journalist receives another accreditation denial
Two months ago Viktar Parfionenka, a correspondent for Radio “Racyja”, filed the fourth application with the Ministry of Internal Affairs to receive official accreditation. Predictably enough, the ministry rejected the application.
03.05.2012 Search and confiscation at Radio "Racyja" Minsk office
On 2 May police visited flats situated near Peramoha Square, where a parade of 9 May rehearsal is to be held. Policemen visited the head office of Radio Racyja in Minsk at about 8.30 p.m., Radio "Racyja" informs.
02.05.2012 Detention of protester against construction works in Uruccha suburb
Dzianis Kabrusiou, an activist of "European Perspectives" campaign, was taking photos of soldiers of special task forces, who were digging out trees on a place of the future construction site. He was detained at 9 in the morning, European Radio for Belarus reports.
30.04.2012 Biarozauka police seize independent newspapers
On 27 April, the police of the town of Biarozauka, Lida district, Hrodna region, detained local activists of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and For Freedom movement Siarhei Trafimchyk and Vitold Ashurak, and seized 800 copies of the Novy Chas independent newspaper.
27.04.2012 Krychau district prosecutor ignores appeals by independent journalists
Uladzimir Tryvaila, Prosecutor of Krychau district (Mahiliou region), has repeatedly ignored appeals by journalists of the Volny Horad independent newspaper, who have been requesting information on combating corruption and organized criminal activity.
25.04.2012 Police prevent executed person’s mother from contacts with journalist
Vitsebsk police attempted to prevent Russian journalists from interviewing the mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou, executed in March on charges of plotting a terrorist attack in Minsk underground back in April 2011.
