News on the topic: mass media
11.04.2011 Is Charter'97 in a list of web-sites, forbidden in Belarus?
The access to the site in the Academy of Sciences via BASNET network is blocked. It is likely that the site is unavailable in some other institutions as well.
07.04.2011 Hrodna: journalist Andrei Pachobut imprisoned
Andrei Pachobut, a journalist with Gazeta Wyborcza, is imprisoned in the temporary detention facility at the Kastrychnitski District Police Department of Hrodna, where he had been placed at night. The measure of restraint for him has been changed.
07.04.2011 Biaroza: journalist Tamara Shchapiotkina banned to come out because of Lukashenka’s visit
According to preliminary information, Lukashenka will visit the silicate plant bought by businessman Yury Chyzh for 380 million rubles a few years ago and he may also visit the district hospital. Then the state leader will play hockey in the Ice Palace.
05.04.2011 Ministry of Justice demands explanations from Belarusian Association of Journalists
The Ministry of Justice wants the BAJ to explain “the legal grounds for activity of the International Federation of Journalists on the territory of Belarus” and the grounds on which its press-cards s are issued by the Belarusian Association of Journalists. This is stated in the official letter of the ministry, dated 1 April and signed by A.Kirychenka, Chair of the NGOs department.
01.04.2011 Journalists interrogated following Natallia Radzina's disappearance
On 31 March in the evening Maryna Koktysh, deputy chief editor of Narodnaya Volia, was summoned for interrogation to the KGB in relation to the disappearance of Natallia Radzina.
31.03.2011 Lida blogger faces libel charges for social network parody
Lida blogger and former employee of Hrodna government-owned newspaper Yauhen Kutsko is reportedly suspected of folk-leasing for a publication in the www.vkontake.ru social network, mocking the local state-run newspaper “Lidskaya gazeta”.
31.03.2011 STATEMENT THE BELARUSIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS ON THE SCORE OF TIGHTENING OF PRESSURE ON JOURNALISTS AT THE END OF MARCH 2011
Situation with freedom of journalistic activity in Belarus has deteriorated dramatically since recently. The BAJ members from Mahilou – Uladzimir Laptsevich, Ales Asiptsou, and Dzmitry Salauyou – were detained and sentenced to 3 – 7 days of arrest under administrative law on the eve of the Freedom Day, celebrated on March 25th. A TV cameraman Uladzislau Staravierau was detained for several hours in the city of Vitsiebsk. All the media workers, mentioned above, were detained upon far-fetched pretexts. Once again, the police and the plain-clothes men prevented journalists from reporting on street actions on March 25, 2011.
29.03.2011 Court upholds closure of Avtoradio
Judge Dzmitry Alyaksandraw rejected an appeal by Avtoradio against its closure at a rehearing of the popular FM station’s case that wrapped up at the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus on Tuesday.
28.03.2011 Journalist Poczobut charged with libel of President
Andrzej Poczobut, reporter of the Gazeta Wyborcza Polish newspaper, is facing charges for libel of President, reports www.belaruspartisan.org, quoting Hrodna Regional Prosecutor Mr. Marozau.
25.03.2011 BelaPAN reporter sentenced to 3 days of arrest
On 24 March, Ales Asiptsou, reporter of the BelaPAN major news agency, was sentenced to three days of administrative arrest for “disorderly conduct”. The verdict pronounced by Mahiliou court says the journalist was urinating not far from his house.
22.03.2011 Radio Racyja reporter questioned by KGB
Barys Haretski, journalist of the Radio Racyja, was detained today in Minsk Partyzanski District Court, where the trial of Mikita Likhavid is taking place. The reporter was taken to the KGB central office and interrogated.
14.03.2011 Homel: riot police detains journalists during flash-mob against prohibition of performance of Lyapis Trubetskoy rock band
On Sunday, 13 March, civil activists held a flash-mob in the central market of Homel to protest against the prohibition of the concert of the prominent Belarusian rock band Lyapis Trubetskoy. By the way, the fact of prohibition of the concert witnesses the trustworthiness of the information that Lyapis Trubetskoy and some more bands, and artists were put on an unofficial black list by the Belarusian authorities.
09.03.2011 KGB refuses to return computer equipment to Nasha Niva
The editorial board of the socio-political newspaper Nasha Niva received an answer from the Minsk and Minsk Region KGB Department to its request to return the computer equipment that had been confiscated following the protest actions of the 19-20 December in central Minsk.
04.03.2011 IFJ and PACE call on Belarusian authorities to stop silencing media
Mats Johansson, Standing Rapporteur of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Media Freedom, and Arne König, President of the European Federation of Journalists, today made the following statement on the situation of the media in Belarus:
03.03.2011 ‘Black lists’ for state media
According to the web resource tut.by, the Ministry of Information submitted to heads of the state media a list of the artists and artistic collectives whose appearance was undesirable in the pages of press editions, on TV and radio.
