News on the topic: warning
02.09.2010 Ministry of Justice afraid of solidarity fund
The trade union was warned that it can face troubles because of the establishment of the fund of solidarity. The decision about the establishment of the fund for giving financial support to participants of strikes was taken by the Council of the Trade Union on the initiative of the trade union organization of the Lios factory situated in the town of Baran (the Vitsebsk region).
30.08.2010 Hlybokaye prosecutor’s office issues warning to opposition activist
Yaraslau Bernikovich, activist of the For Freedom opposition movement and member of the BPF party, was forced to provide explanations on the recent Larysa Heniuyush memorial festival held in the town of Hlybokaye, Vitsebsk region, and officially banned by the local authorities, Radio Racyja reports.
23.08.2010 Justice Ministry issued warning to “Adradzhenne” Belarusian Popular Front party
The public association finds the violation for which the warning has been issued a provocation of the authorities. The formal pretext for the warning was a complaint of some dweller of Babrujsk. She stated that she had been nominated as a member of the election commission from Mahilyou regional organization of the Belarusian Popular Front “Adradzhenne” without her consent.
11.08.2010 Prosecutor Office issued warning to Belsat journalist for a report about heat
Tatsyana Bublikava received an official warning for her journalistic activities without accreditation from the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Supervision agencies considered legality of her work in connection with an application from an agronomist of Uritskaye agricultural production co-operative, “Salidarnasts” reports.
28.07.2010 Private socio-political weekly ‘Nasha Niva’ got two warnings at once
In one week the newspaper has received two warnings from the Information Ministry for publications indirectly related to Godfather, a documentary about Aliaksandr Lukashenka broadcast on the Russian TV channel NTV.
21.06.2010 Ministry of Trade issues warning to Novy Chas newspaper
The Belarusian Ministry of Trade issued an official warning to the Novy Chas independent newspaper after the paper advertised the programs of the BelSat independent satellite TV channel, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
11.06.2010 ’Novy Chas’ newspaper received a warning
The regional socio-political edition Novy Chas received a warning from the Ministry of Information. The newspaper is accused of having omitted in its imprint the patronymic of the chief editor, the bar code and the name of the organ of the state government in the sphere of the mass media.
09.06.2010 Opposition newspaper 'Tovarishch' warned as well
The Information Ministry of Belarus has issued an official warning to founders of Tovarishch, the printed organ of the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World.
02.06.2010 ’Narodnaya Volia’ issued with third warning
The previous ones were issued by the Ministry of Information in November and December 2009.
13.05.2010 Procuracy warns entrepreneur for ‘biased commentaries’
On 13 May Viktar Chaikouski, Chairperson of the Brest branch of the Republican civil association Perspective, received an official warning from the Brest Region Procuracy.
30.04.2010 Journalist and editor of Hantsavichy independent newspaper warned
On 26 April junior counselor of justice Siarhei Dzezhka, prosecutor of Hantsavichy district, issued an official warning to Aliaksei Bely, editor-in-chief of the ‘Hantsavitski chas’ independent newspaper and the paper’s journalist Katsiaryna Kurlovich, for allegedly publishing false information on the local council elections in the paper’s issue of 16 April 2010, the press-service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
24.04.2010 Vitsebsk: BCD activist issued with a warning
Alena Shabunia, a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party running for the Vitsebsk Regional and District Councils of Deputies, received an official warning from the appropriate territorial election commissions for holding electoral pickets with musical accompaniment.
03.03.2010 Election commission issued two warnings to Yury Karetnikau
On 2 March the Maskouski district election commission in Minsk issued two warnings to the leader of the Right Alliance Yury Karetnikau, an independent candidate. One of the warnings was issued for ‘untimely agitation of electors’ and the other – for printing of what the commission called ‘agitation materials’.
15.01.2010 Ministry of Justice issues official warning to Belarusian Association of Journalists
The Ministry of Justice of Belarus laid several claims to the Belarusian Association of Journalists. BAJ considers them groundless and is going to appeal against the warning.
21.12.2009 Ministry of Information upholds warning to Narodnaya Volia
The Ministry of Information named the warning issued to the Narodnaya Volia independent newspaper on 17 November groundless. The official letter signed by Minister of Information Aleh Praliaskouski states that the newspaper disseminated prohibited information, since ‘the article published by the newspaper contained extremist appeals.’
