News on the topic: mass media
03.06.2011 Human rights defender sues Life:) for blocking opposition websites
Aleh Matskevich wants to find out why the closed joint stock company BeST, a provider of mobile communications in Belarus, blocks the access to the websites charter97.org, belaruspartisan.org and prokopovi.ch at its 3G life service.
31.05.2011 Court leaves Ministry of Information's warning to "Nasha Niva" in force
Supreme Economic court has not satisfied "Nasha Niva's" complaint.
27.05.2011 Aksana Pachobut and two BAJ members detained in Hrodna
The reason for the detention was making a video near “a secure object”.
24.05.2011 Belarusian visa annulled to Radio Racyja head
Border guards on the Polish-Belarusian border have annulled a visa of the chairman of the board of Radio Racyja Yauheny Vapa.
17.05.2011 Andrzej Poczobut enters motion for termination of criminal case
Journalist Andrzej Poczobut, facing charges for insult and libel of President Lukashenka, has lodged a motion for dismissal of the criminal case due to lack of corpus delicti, says the reporter’s lawyer Aliaksandr Birylau.
16.05.2011 Hrodna runaway journalist speaks on porno-peddling case
Hrodna journalist Aliaksei Salei, currently in Poland after Belarus police initiated criminal proceedings for alleged porno-peddling, released a statement on the criminal case against him after he refused to testify against Andrzej Poczobut.
12.05.2011 Trial on closure of Nasha Niva postponed till consideration of appeal against third warning of Information Ministry
This is the result of the preliminary hearings that took place at the Supreme Economic Court on 11 May. Judge Kuryla granted the solicitation of the defendant for postponing the trial.
10.05.2011 Autoradio is still considered as “extremist”
On 10 May the cassation board of the Supreme Economic Court declined the cassation appeal of Autoradio. The radio station asked the court to reverse its verdict of 29 March which left in force the decision of the National commission on TV and radio broadcasting according to which the airplay of Autoradio was to be stopped.
10.05.2011 Vitsebsk: journalist decided not to attend his “trial” and was fined in absentia
Uladzislau Staraverau was to have been tried at the Kastrychnitski District Court of Vitsebsk in connection with his detention at the Chernobyl Way action held in Vitsebsk on 26 April.
10.05.2011 Andrei Pachobut is left behind bars
Journalist Andrei Pachobut, charged under two articles of the Criminal Code – Article 368, part 1 of the Criminal Code, “defamation of President of the Republic of Belarus”, and Article 367, part 1, “libel against President of the Republic of Belarus”, was visited by his counsel, Aliaksandr Birylau.
10.05.2011 Polatsk post: “There won't be such a newspaper anymore”
The court verdict on closing down the private socio-political weekly Nasha Niva hasn't been pronounced. However, the subscription to it is stopped in Polatsk and the Polatsk district.
05.05.2011 Biaroza residents address Information Minister
Biaroza readers of the private socio-political editions Narodnaya Volia and Nasha Niva addressed the Information Minister, Aleh Praliaskouski, with the demand to revoke the lawsuit for the liquidation of the newspapers. They point that if the newspapers are closed down, their rights to receive all-sided and trustworthy information will be violated, and state that the people have the right to chose what to read.
04.05.2011 Journalist Uladzimir Laptsevich appeals prison nutrition fee
On 26 March – 1 April Uladzimir Laptsevich, a journalist with the information agency BelaPAN served an administrative arrest term in the Mahiliou isolator.
27.04.2011 Ministry of Information tries to close “Nasha Niva” and “Narodnaya Volya"
The Ministry of Information has mounted suits in order to stop the printing of the editions to the Belarusian Supreme Economic Court.
22.04.2011 9 warnings to journalists in 7 days
Belarusian mass media have encountered increasing harassment following a terrorist act in Minsk metro on 11 April, with 10 warnings addressed to individual journalists and editorial boards within just 7 days between 12 and 19 April following the blast.
