News on the topic: mass media
14.03.2011 Homel: riot police detains journalists during flash-mob against prohibition of performance of Lyapis Trubetskoy rock band
On Sunday, 13 March, civil activists held a flash-mob in the central market of Homel to protest against the prohibition of the concert of the prominent Belarusian rock band Lyapis Trubetskoy. By the way, the fact of prohibition of the concert witnesses the trustworthiness of the information that Lyapis Trubetskoy and some more bands, and artists were put on an unofficial black list by the Belarusian authorities.
09.03.2011 KGB refuses to return computer equipment to Nasha Niva
The editorial board of the socio-political newspaper Nasha Niva received an answer from the Minsk and Minsk Region KGB Department to its request to return the computer equipment that had been confiscated following the protest actions of the 19-20 December in central Minsk.
04.03.2011 IFJ and PACE call on Belarusian authorities to stop silencing media
Mats Johansson, Standing Rapporteur of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Media Freedom, and Arne König, President of the European Federation of Journalists, today made the following statement on the situation of the media in Belarus:
03.03.2011 ‘Black lists’ for state media
According to the web resource tut.by, the Ministry of Information submitted to heads of the state media a list of the artists and artistic collectives whose appearance was undesirable in the pages of press editions, on TV and radio.
02.03.2011 Journalist Tatsiana Bublikava warned by procuracy
The journalist was issued with an official warning for covering the events of 19 December in the Nezalezhnastsi Square in Minsk without an accreditation, though earlier the court had punished her with ‘participation in unauthorized action’.
01.03.2011 Natallia Radzina warned
Policemen came to the apartment where the journalist lives under a non-leave obligation since she was released from the KGB detention center and said she should go with them. She managed to inform her colleagues, after which the call was interrupted.
28.02.2011 Borisovskiye novosti weekly keeps appealing police search
Representatives of the Borisvoskiye novosti independent weekly keep appealing the search at the newspaper’s office carried out by Barysau police on 10 January.
15.02.2011 President of EU Parliament urges Belarusian authorities to release Andrei Pachobut
The President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, called on the Belarusian authorities to free Andrei Pachobut, a Gazeta Wyborcza correspondent and a member of the Union of Poles in Belarus.
10.02.2011 Barys Haretski gets warned
On 10 February Barys Haretski, a journalist with Radio Racyja, came to the General Procuracy to which he was summonsed for answering some questions concerning his professional activities.
09.02.2011 Mikola Bianko summonsed to Maskouski District Police Department of Minsk
Mikola Bianko, a journalist with Radio Racyja, received a telephone call from a man who introduced himself as police major Aliaksandr Vasiliievich. He asked where the activist lived in Homel and said that the police wanted to take his fingerprints.
09.02.2011 Barys Haretski summonsed to procuracy
Barys Haretski, a correspondent with Radio Racyja, received a telephone call from the General Procuracy and told to come for a ‘talk’ at 10 a.m. on 10 February.
31.01.2011 Charter'97 editor Natalia Radzina in exile in Kobryn
charter97.org editor Natalia Radzina, released from KGB detention center, on January 30 in the evening arrived in Kobryn where she will stay udner the written undertaking not to leave the country.
28.01.2011 Journalist Vaskovich suspected in attack on KGB building in Babruisk
A correspondent of the newspaper "Babruisk Courier" Jauhen Vaskovich is suspected in the attack on the building of the local KGB department in Babruisk.
27.01.2011 Journalist Vaskovich’s term of detention prolonged for two months
Babruisk journalist of the “Babruisk Courier” newspaper Yauhen Vaskovich’s term of detention has been prolonged for two months. He was detained in Mahileu on January 17. His mother was informed that he had been arrested for 10 days for an act of hooliganism he was said to have committed on January 16. It became known that a criminal case was started against him later, reports Radio Liberty.
24.01.2011 KGB detains journalist Henadz Barbarych
A journalist Henadz Barbarych was detained in the club named after Dziarzhynski. He was taking interviews of the prisoners' wives. The KGB officers approached him, asked his documents and the aim of his being there. Then they took him with them.
