17.09.2010 Foreign journalists urge Belarus to guarantee protection of media freedom in Belarus

Representatives of the international mass media community recommend the Belarusian authorities to intensify legal protection of journalists, says a statement released by the participants of the international conference ‘10 years on – no justice for Georgiy Gongadze – the need to find new ways to fight impunity', held in Kyiv by the Article 19 and the International Media Support organizations, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

17.09.2010 Another warning to “Narodnaya Volya” newspaper

It is the forth warning to the independent newspaper since the begging of the year.

Minister of information Aleh Pralyaskouski issued another warning to “Narodnaya Volya”, the press service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists informs.

15.09.2010 Navahradak: trial for distribution of ‘Prauda Niakliayeva’

On 15 September Vasil Aliakhnovich, Chief Judge of the Navahradak District Court, sentenced the activists of the Speak Truth campaign Ivan Dziashuk and Natallia Katsmayer to pay 700,000 rubles for distributing the unregistered edition Prauda Niakliayeva two weeks ago.

15.09.2010 Andrei Tychyna gets fined for distribution of newspapers

The democratic activist from Salihorsk Andrei Tychyna was fined 1,225,000 rubles (about $) for handing out the newspapers My i Rynak and Hazeta Niakliayeva with the logo of the Speak Truth campaign at the Salihorsk town market on 31 August.

15.09.2010 Supreme Economical Court turned down ’Nasha Niva’ lawsuit

The chief editor of Nasha Niva Andrei Skurko, an expert linguist- candidate of philological sciences Nadzeya Shakun and witnesses – the readers of the newspaper who did not manage to buy the issue in the newsstand, appeared in the Supreme Economical Court, at the trial Nasha Niva vs. the Ministry of Information. Predictably enough, the court turned down the lawsuit of the newspaper and left the warnings of the ministry in force.

14.09.2010 Interrogation of Andrei Pachobut

On 13 September the Hrodna journalist Andrei Pachobut was summoned to the Office for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Hrodna region.

14.09.2010 Threats to Natallia Radzina continue

Anonymous threats to the journalist of charter97.org appear daily from the day of Aleh Biabenin’s death.

13.09.2010 Playwright Mikalai Khalezin receives anonymous threats

The head of the Free Theater was threatened after the publication of his article about Aleh Biabenin’s death.

09.09.2010 Aleh Biabenin’s friend tells about circumstances surrounding his death

A friend of Aleh Biabenin. the editor of the web site Electroname.com writes about what was happening on the day of the tragedy and the days before it.

08.09.2010 Discrepancies around Aleh Biabenin's death

Friends and colleagues indicate at the details that contradict the official version.The prosecutor’s office has already announced the official version about a suicide, but they assure it is not a final conclusion.

01.09.2010 Internet filtration begins

On 1 September the Belarusian internet providers launch the systems that will restrict the public access to certain internet resources.

26.08.2010 Homel police seize Havary Praudu periodical

Homel police detained Ivan Hamarka, activist of the Havary Praudu civil campaign as he was distributing the Elektrychka newspaper, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

24.08.2010 Independent publisher Panamarou put on wanted list

On 23 August, Siarhei Panamarou, publisher of the Boiki Kletsk independent newsletter, was put on the wanted list following a court hearing by Slutsk District Court on the same day, the Nasha Niva newspaper reports, quoting the publisher’s lawyer Pavel Sapelka.

20.08.2010 Krychau court to consider claim by independent newspaper publisher

Krychau District Court is to consider a claim lodged by the publisher of local independent newspaper ‘Volny Horad’ Uladzimer Kudrautsau against illegal seizure of 297 copies of the newspaper’s latest issue by the town’s police, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

19.08.2010 Publisher of “Bojki Kletsk” asks for political asylum in Poland

An activist of “For Freedom” movement from Kletsk, 58-year-old Syarhei Panamarou, has asked for political asylum in Poland.

A criminal process against him is scheduled for August 23, and the man was to give a written undertaking not to leave the place before the court.