News on the topic: mass media
29.04.2013 Minsk court convicts participants of Chernobyl Way march, journalists
Minsk Savetski District Court heard today administrative charges brought against six persons detained during and following Chernobyl Way memorial demonstration on Friday, including two journalists of Radio Racyja Henadz Barbarych and Aliaksandr Yarashevich, as well as human rights defender Viachaslau Dashkevich.
29.04.2013 Statement by Radio Racyja on detention of journalists
The Belarusian Radio Racyja expresses its protest at the detention of two journalists.
26.04.2013 KGB warns Hrodna journalist
Uladzimir Khilmanovich was warned by the KGB that his newspaper articles in the Bialystok-based “Niva” newspaper might be subject to criminal charges of defaming the Republic of Belarus, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Belarus service reports.
26.04.2013 BAJ website attacked
The website of the Belarusian Association of Journalists has become the fourth website attacked in the last few days.
26.04.2013 Independent journalists detained in Astravets
Cameraman Aliaksandr Barazenka and journalist Anastasia Yaumen have been detained in the town of Astravets.
25.04.2013 Dunja Mijatovic: I will fight for Belarusian journalists
Conference on journalist security started on 23 April in Warsaw.
25.04.2013 Belpartizan website hacked
The Belarusian independent website was hacked on the morning April 25. The homepage demonstrated an address from anonymous hackers who claimed to be adherents of the Anonymous group.
24.04.2013 Charter97.org under attack
Our website has been exposed to DDoS-attack.
23.04.2013 Fourth Refusal to Re-Register the Magazine Arche
The Ministry of Information again denied re-registration to the magazine Arche.Beginning.
19.04.2013 Detained journalists released from police department
BelaPAN camera man Syarhei Satsyuk was released at about 1 p.m. Radio Liberty correspondent was free an hour later.
19.04.2013 Are there any threats for sellers and owners of “Belarus Press Photo 2011” album?
On April 17, Yulia Darashkevich received a phone call from the “Book Salon” located in Kalinin Street in Minsk with a request to pick up the rest of the copies of the album they had not sold. The journalist reported this through her Facebook page. On April 18, the NGO “Belarusian Association of Journalists” contacted the bookshop to find out that the store was not going to sell any more of these books, despite the fact that at the time the court had not even announced its decision.
19.04.2013 Journalists detained in Minsk
Aleh Hruzdzilovich, journalist of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe’s Belarus service, and Siarhei Satsiuk, cameraman of the BelaPAN news agency, were detained this morning while covering a protest staged by a public initiative “Against Lawlessness in the Courts and the Prosecutor’s Office” in Minsk’s Independence Square, outside the House of Government building where President Lukashenka is expected to address the Parliament today, RFE/RL reports.
19.04.2013 BAJ Objects to Ashmiany Court Verdict on ‘Extremism’ in ‘Press Photo Belarus 2011’ Photo Album
The Belarusian Association of Journalists has sharply objected to the decision of Ashmiany District Court on recognizing the ‘Press Photo Belarus 2011’ photo album as an extremist material.
18.04.2013 Ashmiany court: album “Belarus Press Photo 2011” contains extremist materials
Ashmiany District Court ruled today in a lawsuit brought by the KGB’s Hrodna regional department and found the album “Belarus Press Photo 2011” an extremist edition. As a result of a two-day trial, the 41 copies of the publication earlier confiscated by the customs officials were ordered to be destroyed.
17.04.2013 Verdict in extremism trial expected tomorrow
The Court of Ashmiany district (Hrodna region) considered today a lawsuit brought by the KGB’s regional office to recognize the “Belarus Press Photo 2011” album an extremist edition.
