News on the topic: mass media
06.02.2014 Analytic report “Belarus: Time for Media Reform”
On February 6, an analytic report on media situation in Belarus was presented at the office of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
05.02.2014 Babruisk police “questioned” and “examined” blogger Aleh Zhalnou for more than 11 hours
Babruisk blogger Aleh Zhalnou was detained in the morning of February 4 and released only after spending 11.5 hours at the police department.
03.02.2014 Four people arrested at shooting of pro-Lukashenka film
People were detained for chanting “Long live Belarus!” and speaking to extras. A young man shouted “Long live Belarus!” on Nezalezhnasts Avenue during the filming of scenes for the propaganda movie “Abel”. He was detained by security officers.
27.01.2014 Belsat TV Wins Lawsuit on the Use of Trademark
The Judges' Panel of the Supreme Court of Belarus dismissed the suit of the private company Belsat + against the satellite television Belsat.
27.01.2014 Belsat film crew beaten and held in Cherkasy
Belsat's film crew – journalist Yury Vysotski and cameraman Siarhei Marchyk – were beaten by Berkut police in the town of Cherkasy.
23.01.2014 CPJ: Journalists assaulted amid protests in Ukraine
New York, January 22, 2014-Dozens of journalists were attacked, and their equipment damaged, while reporting on anti-government protests that began over the weekend in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, according to local and international news reports. The protests come as the government approved new legislation imposing restrictions on the media.
22.01.2014 BAJ Expresses Solidarity with Colleagues in Ukraine
According to estimates of Ukrainian organizations, during the January 19-20 fighting in the European square in Kyiv, up to the 30 journalists were injured. In all more than 50 journalists during November – December 2013 suffered, mainly from the attack of Ukrainian police and the plain-clothed people, so called “titushki”.
21.01.2014 Belsat Lawsuit: Plaintiff Changes Claim
Today, the company Belsat + no longer wants that Belsat TV stop being transmitted; now, the only thing the director wants is that Belsat TV stop using the trade mark “Belsat”.
09.01.2014 Presidium of Mahiliou Regional Court reversed the verdict on the case of “Volny Horad”
On December 27, 2013 The Presidium of the Mahiliou Regional Court decided to annul the verdict of the Krychau District Court for June 17, 2013 concerning the claim of Cherykau PMK- 280 to the printed mass media “Volny Horad” and its journalists and terminate the proceedings. Yesterday the journalists received a copy of the verdict by mail.
09.01.2014 Is activity of Klimavichy District Executive Committee's administrative commission a state secret?
On 8 January the publisher of the independent news bulletins "Klimavichy Infa-Panarama” Siarhei Arzhanets was denied the right to attend a sitting of the administrative commission of the Klimavichy District Executive Committee.
06.01.2014 State-owned newspaper accuses political parties of passiveness
The regional newspaper "Vitebskiye Vesti" summed up the forming of the territorial election commissions and told the readers that "the activity of political parties is barely visible", as far as “just 17 members of parties became members of the commissions, including 13 members of the , as party members, including 13 members of the Communist Party of Belarus”.
06.01.2014 “Hazeta Slonimskaya” evicted from its premises
The staff have to move to a new office for the fourth time for 16 years of the newspaper's life.
20.12.2013 Supreme Court to decide how to inform journalists about executions and death sentences
Answering the question whether there will be any changes in the near future of how journalists can be informed about the imposition and execution of death sentences, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Valery Kalinkovich noted that this issue would be considered at the plenum of the Supreme Court.
18.12.2013 Action Required: Support Freelance Journalists in Belarus
The European Fedeartion of Journalists supports BAJ's efforts aimed at introducing a legal status for freelance journalists in the Belarusian media law.
18.12.2013 Independent weekly in Slonim faces eviction
The company “Partner-Slonim Ltd.”, which owns the premises rented by a local independent weekly, Hazeta Slonimskaya, requests that the office should be vacated by January 1, 2014, the press-service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
