News on the topic: mass media
17.10.2007 Belarus Takes 151th Place for Freedom of Mass Media
Yesterday international human right organization Reporters without Borders published its annual rating of mass media freedom.
15.10.2007 Narodnaya Volia Appeals against Judgement on Aleh Praliaskouski’s Action
Narodnaya Volia paper and its journalist Maryna Koktysh have appealed against Leninski District Court’s judgement on Aleh Pralaskouski’s action to Minsk City Court. The paper and the journalist demand that the district court’s judgement be cancelled and the case dismissed in what concerns both the monetary compensation and publishing a disclaimer.
05.10.2007 Pinsk: Non-state Newspaper Miastsovy Shliakh Suspends Its Activity for Economical Reasons
The editorial office of the non-state newspaper Miastsovy Shliakh decided to suspend its activities because of a hard financial situation.
05.10.2007 Tovarishch Editor Appeals against Police Raid
The chief editor of the Tovarishch, newspaper of the oppositional Party of Communists of Belarus (PCB), has lodged a complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office and Leninski district prosecutor’s office in Minsk in connection with the last month’s police raid on the newspaper’s office.
24.09.2007 Trials over Brest Region Activists to Continue in October
oday Maskouski court of Brest will hear the case against Nasta Mialeshka, reporter of Brestskiy Kuryer newspaper.
24.09.2007 Customs Officers Doubt Journalists’ “Right to Be Free”
Belarusian customs officers copied information from reporters' cameras and listened to voice recordings.
21.09.2007 Homel Region Prosecutor’s Office Warns Ales Karniyenka for Cooperation with Foreign Mass Media
The warning is signed by deputy prosecutor of Homel region
17.09.2007 BAJ Member Sues Homelskaya Prauda Newspaper
Legal consultant of Homel city BAJ organization Leanid Sudalenka applied to Chyhunachny court of Homel with a suit against Homelskaya Prauda newspaper
13.09.2007 Does Belsat Already Bother Authorities?
The administration of a new satellite TV channel Belsat has stated that the Belarusian side refused to sell to it belsat.by domain without explaining the reasons to the company that acted as a mediator. Belsat is a foreign TV channel that intends to broadcast information on Belarus without state control.
30.08.2007 Hrodna: Prosecutor’s Office Struggles against ‘Discredit of Police’
On 29 August the journalist Ivan Roman was called to Leninski district prosecutor’s office of Hrodna. The prosecutor started investigating if Ivan Roman had been the author of ‘the governmental body discrediting’ news story published at Radio Ratsyja website in July.
15.08.2007 Kletsk: Criminal Case against Underground Press
Criminal charges have been brought against the underground publisher of Boiki Kletsk bulletin, democratic activist Siarhei Panamarou. That happened several hours after Panamarou’s submitting an application for a picket in support for the political prisoners.
14.08.2007 Reporters Without Borders Condemns Situation of Freedom of Speech in Belarus
Reporters Without Borders condemns the parliamentary human rights and media committee’s decision on 3 August to reject a request from the Belarus Association of Journalists (BAJ) that it should consider whether article 10 of the media law violates articles 33 and 34 of the constitution.
10.08.2007 ‘Internet Simulation’ in Secondary Schools of Homel Region
Homel Regional Institute for Educational Retraining implemented its ‘know-how’ -a simulation of Internet activities - in Belarusian schools.
09.08.2007 Chamber of Representatives Gives Official Answer to Belarusian Association of Journalists
On 4 July the Belarusian association of Journalists sent to the Chamber of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus a request to clear some provisions of article 10 of the law On press and other media, according to which a mass media needed to have agreement of the local authorities to placement of its legal address in order to be registered.
07.08.2007 Homel: Trade Union Activist Demands Disproval of Libel about His Son
Leanid Sudalenka, a legal expert with the Union of Electronic Industry Workers, has demanded that a state-run newspaper in the Homel region should retract what he calls a libelous story about his son.
