News for 17 Jun 2013
17.06.2013 Police seize 10,000 copies of newspaper Nash Dom
Some 10,000 copies of the Nash Dom (“Our House”) newspaper, a thousand branded envelopes and other printed matter of the civil campaign “Our House” were seized yesterday by employees of Minsk Savetski district police department in one of the capital’s private garages, www.svabodaby.net reports.
17.06.2013 Salidarnasts launches Week of Political Prisoner campaign
The Committee for the Protection of the Repressed Salidarnasts launched today an information campaign of solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus under the name Week of Political Prisoner.
17.06.2013 Krychau district court rules against independent newspaper
The District Court of Krychau ruled today in the claim for “the protection of business reputation” by the Cherykau-based state-owned enterprise PMK (Mobile Mechanical Division) No. 280 against local independent newspaper Volny Horad (“Free Town”). The claim dealt with an article about salary payment delays at the enterprise. As a result, the court found the information regarding the enterprise as false, and ordered the newspaper to publish a retraction.
17.06.2013 Ministry of Justice rejects registration bid by Tell the Truth campaign
The Ministry of Justice dismissed registration papers by the civil campaign Tell the Truth.
17.06.2013 Chairman of Vitsebsk court suggests prosecuting civil society activist over insult of judge
Vitsebsk civil society activist Piotr Ivanov asked the authorities to initiate criminal proceedings against Judge Valiantsina Kismiaroshkina, who, in his opinion, knowingly violated the law and unjustly punished him with a fine of 4 million rubles in the administrative case. However, it seems that it is the activist himself who may face criminal charges: such a proposal to the head of the Investigative Committee of Vitsebsk region, Uladzimir Shalukhina, was made by the Chairman of Pershamaiski District Court of Vitsebsk Andrushchanka.
17.06.2013 Belsat reporter shortly detained in Staubtsy district
The detention took place at about 3 p.m. on June 16, while Ales Silich, journalist of the Belsat independent TV channel, was making a story in Staubtsy district, where, according to some reports, a suspicious pig pestilence was recently noticed, the BAJ press-service reports.
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