News on the topic: mass media
18.01.2011 Journalist Haretski sentenced to 14 days of arrest
Today, Minsk Maskouski Court sentenced Barys Haretski, journalist of the Radio Racyja, to 14 days of imprisonment for alleged participation in an illegal picket outside the KGB pre-trial prison on 17 January.
17.01.2011 Journalist Haretski detained outside KGB prison
Journalist Barys Haretski has been reportedly detained by Minsk police, as he was interviewing the families of the accused in the 19 December mass riots case outside the KGB prison.
14.01.2011 Chronicle of searches and interrogations
At 11.30 the search in the apartment of the Minsk activist of Speak Truth Ihar Vinnikau came to an end. The police confiscated his computer, two mobile phones, flash drives and books of poetry by Uladzimir Niakliayeu.
13.01.2011 Journalist Andrei Pachobut gets fined
On 13 January the Kastrychnitski District Court of Minsk fined the journalist 1,750,000 rubles (about $600) upon Article 23.34 of the Administrative Code, ‘violation of the rules of organizing or holding mass events’, for participation in 19 December protest action.
13.01.2011 Editor of Novy Chas interrogated by police
The editor of the Novy Chas newspaper received a telephone invitation for a ‘talk’ from the Frunzenski District Police Department of Minsk. A police officer said that his telephone was registered in Nezalezhnastsi Square at the time of the 19 December demonstration.
12.01.2011 Inform-progulka fined 700,000 rubles
The Luninets District Court ruled to fine the editorial board of the private regional newspaper Inform-progulka 700,000 rubles (about $230) for publishing advertisement of the foreign satellite TV channel BelSat without mentioning the account number of the foreign payer.
12.01.2011 Homel: computer equipment confiscated from Larysa Shchyrakova
KGB officers searched the apartment of the journalist from Homel Larysa Shchyrakova on 11 January. She is a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists and works with a series of non-state media.
12.01.2011 Committee to Protect Journalists urges Belarusian authorities to stop pressurizing mass media
The Committee to Protect of Journalists has urged the Belarusian authorities to stop pressure on the Belarusian independent mass media on 11 January, informed the Committee's scientific employee Muzafar Suleimanov to BelaPAN.
12.01.2011 Avtoradio closed down for broadcasting ads for presidential candidates
A Minsk-based radio station that broadcast campaign advertisements for opposition presidential candidates has been taken off the air due to the cancellation of its license, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
10.01.2011 Journalist Andrei Pachobut beaten by Hrodna KGB
Andrei Pachobut, a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza and a popular Belarusian blogger, was detained by special task forces in Hrodna on 8 January, guarded to a KGB department, and beaten by KGB officers at the questioning.
04.01.2011 KGB bans Vital Rymasheuski to hold press-conference
The former prisoner of the KGB jail, ex-presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski says that he had to cancel his press-conference he intended to hold on 4 January.
04.01.2011 Search at the apartment of BelSat journalist Ales Barazenka
The apartment of Aliaksandr Barazenka, a journalist for the Polish satellite TV channel BelSat was searched as well. Mr. Barazenka managed to inform the BelSat representative Mikhail Yanchuk about it. According to Mr. Yanchuk, the search at Barazenka’s started at 6 a.m. and lasted for about two hours.
03.01.2011 Reporters Without Borders: Crackdown on media intensifies, KGB raids on media
The crackdown on media that covered the post-election protests on 19 December has been reinforced in the past few days. Members of the Committee for State Security (KGB) have searched the offices of three news media and an opposition party and the homes of two journalists, two human rights activists, two former presidential candidates and four of their advisers since 25 December.
03.01.2011 Restraint to Fiaduta and Radzina remains unchanged
On 31 December the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk refused to change the restraint to the journalists Aliaksandr Fiaduta and Natallia Radzina who are charged with organizing mass riot (Article 293 of the Criminal Code). Thus, the accused remain in custody.
29.12.2010 KGB raids office shared by Belarusian PEN Center and private weekly Nasha Niva
KGB officers raided the office of the Belarusian PEN Center and the private weekly Nasha Niva in downtown Minsk on Tuesday evening.
