News on the topic: mass media
22.08.2011 General prosecutor's office names 5 people who detained Euroradio's journalists
Prosecutors suggest that the Interior Minister Anatol Kuliashou should subject them to disciplinary responsibility.
19.08.2011 Trial of Belsat reporter put of till 22 August
The consideration of the administrative charges brought against Siarhei Karpenka, reporter of the Belast Poland-based independent TV channel, has been postponed till 22 August.
08.08.2011 Narodnaya Volia fined about $2,800
On 8 August the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus fined opposition newspaper Narodnaya Volia 400 basic units, or Br14 million rubles ($2.8 thousand) for multiple violations of law during the year. The edition is not going to appeal the verdict.
08.08.2011 Zhana Litvina: “We call for the immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski and putting an end to harassment of Belarusian human rights defenders”
Zhana Litvina, Chairperson of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, commented on the detention of a BAJ member, human rights defender Ales Bialiatski.
08.08.2011 Journalist Tatsiana Shaputska sentenced to 10 days of arrest
Tatsiana Shaputska, a journalist of the Novy Chas newspaper, who had been detained in Horki, was sentenced to10 days of administrative arrest.
03.08.2011 General Procuracy finished check-up on appeal of European Radio journalists
Nasta Mantsevich, Pavel Sviardlou and Andrei Yeliseyeu, journalists for the European Radio for Belarus which has an official accreditation in Belarus, suffered from unlawful actions of people in mufti during the silent protest actions that were held in Minsk in June-July. Pavel Sviardlou was detained twice.
01.08.2011 Homel: journalist appeals policeman's actions
On 3 July Alena Hermanovich, a journalist for the BelaPAN information agency, was detained by the police at the Pryvakzalnaya Square in Homel. The woman was taken to the police station. During the detention police major Aliaksandr Koshman gave the following order to his subordinates: “Seize her, she is a journalist!”, which means that he deliberately created obstacles to her professional activities.
01.08.2011 'Nasha Niva' got fined 14 million rubles
On 29 July Aliaksandr Karamyshau, Judge of the Minsk City Economic Court, considered the administrative case that had been brought against the private socio-political edition Nasha Niva by the Main Police Department of the Minsk City Executive Committee, and sentenced the newspaper to pay a fine of 14 million rubles.
21.07.2011 Yauhen Vaskovich in disciplinary cell for refusal to hand in his Bible
Babruisk journalist, convicted for an attempt to set KGB building on fire,has been punished for "breaking internal regime" once again.
15.07.2011 Hlybokaye: journalist is “advised” not to come to central square on Wednesday evenings
Dzmitry Lupach, editor of the Hlybokaye advertisement newspaper Prefect-info, was summonsed to the police. The writ was passed to him at the central square of the town on 13 July, during a silent protest action.
15.07.2011 Niasvizhski Chas not sold at state newsstands
At the end of June the editorial office of the private socio-political newspaper Niasvizhski Chas sent a letter to the state enterprise Minskablsayuzdruk to propose cooperation. In the beginning of July the enterprise answered that on 3 January 2011 it finished the campaign on concluding such agreements with periodicals and doesn't intend to sell the newspaper this year.
14.07.2011 Journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich tells about circumstances of his detention
"I saw two policemen among the detained in the police bus. The people in the bus also thought that they were detainees. They asked them: “What have you been detained for?” And they joked: “Oh! We went out to drink some beer – and we got detained”. They lied to those people. It turned out that they were [policemen when we reached the police office. They are placed in police buses to prevent people from escaping if necessary. They were doing their job”
13.07.2011 Journalists address Prosecutor General and Interior Minister
On 13 July in the morning journalists went to the General Procuracy of Belarus in order to pass their address to its head, Ryhor Vasilevich.
13.07.2011 Hrodna: fine to journalist Hrazhyna Shalkevich
On 13 July the Leninski District Court of Hrodna fined Hrazhyna Shalkevich, a journalist for Radio Racyja, 1,050,000 rubles for alleged participation in the silent protest action of 6 July.
13.07.2011 Journalist of Belorusy i Rynok summonsed to KGB
On 13 July morning a KGB officer phoned to Ihar Illiash, a journalist for the private socio-political newspaper Belorusy i Rynok, and told him to come to the KGB at 2 p.m.
