News on the topic: mass media
07.07.2010 10th anniversary of disappearance of journalist Dzmitry Zavadski
10 years ago, on 7 July 2000, the Belarusian TV cameraman Dzmitry Zavadski went missing. In the morning he drove to the National airport Minsk to meet his colleague, journalist Pavel Sharamet, and has never been seen ever since. His car was found in the airport.
06.07.2010 Website of socio-political newspaper ‘Vitsebski Kuryer’ is blocked
The editorial board associates it with the enforcement of Decree #60 regulating the activities of the national internet resources.
06.07.2010 Siarhei Panamarou is suspected in insult of officials
Siarhei Panamarou, a Kletsk activist of the For Freedom movement, was summoned to the Minsk Region Procuracy for an interrogation at 10 a.m. on 9 July, at the office of an investigator of especially important cases, Mr. Azarevich, in Shchadryn Street, 1.
05.07.2010 Criminal cases against vialejka.org
The website vialejka.org has stopped working after a criminal case on libel and insulting was instigated against its administrators.
01.07.2010 Journalist Yury Varonezhtsau applies to court to return confiscated belongings and money
On 29 June, a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, Yury Varonezhtsau, applied to the Tsentralny District Court of Homel with a complaint against the actions of the police department of the Homel Region Executive Committee, who had conducted a search at his home on 18 May and had confiscated some things that belonged to him and his family.
01.07.2010 Procuracy wants to know how charter97.org functions
The first day when the decree on internet censorship came into force was marked by questioning of a well-known journalist Natallia Radzina.
30.06.2010 Journalist Natalia Radzina summoned to prosecutor's office
Journalist Natalia Radzina who runs Charter'97 web site has been summoned for interrogation to investigators at Minsk City Prosecutor's Office on July 1, reports Radio Svaboda.
21.06.2010 Ministry of Trade issues warning to Novy Chas newspaper
The Belarusian Ministry of Trade issued an official warning to the Novy Chas independent newspaper after the paper advertised the programs of the BelSat independent satellite TV channel, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
16.06.2010 Journalists detained in Minsk
Journalists Nasta Krauchuk and Volha Zharnasek were detained by the police outside the Belarusian State University main building, as they were covering an event arranged by the ‘Havary Praudu’ civil campaign, the press-service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
11.06.2010 ’Novy Chas’ newspaper received a warning
The regional socio-political edition Novy Chas received a warning from the Ministry of Information. The newspaper is accused of having omitted in its imprint the patronymic of the chief editor, the bar code and the name of the organ of the state government in the sphere of the mass media.
11.06.2010 Car with circulation of ‘Tovarishch’ newspaper detained on the border
Dzmitry Yaneka, a member of the central committee of the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World, told BelaPAN that all copies of the fifth issue of Tovarishch were detained.
09.06.2010 Politically motivated criminal case against Siarhei Panamarou
The criminal case was brought against the democratic activist under Article 369 of the Criminal Code, 'insult of state official'. There were several attempts to bring a criminal case against Mr. Panamarou before. This time, the investigation conducted an expertise of the publications of his newspaper, Boiki Kletsk, for 2006-2007. As a result, traits of insult of state officials were found in more than 20 articles, and inn 7 articles the insult was definitely determined. The criminal case was instigated on the basis of these seven articles.
09.06.2010 Opposition newspaper 'Tovarishch' warned as well
The Information Ministry of Belarus has issued an official warning to founders of Tovarishch, the printed organ of the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World.
09.06.2010 Provost of Homel university demands 45 mln rubles from 'Narodnaya Volia'
The trial proceedings in the case at the suit of Syiarhei Khanenia, provost of Homel State University, are scheduled for June 9 at 2.30 p.m.
03.06.2010 Homel: civil activists detained for collecting signatures for abolishment of Decree #60
Three activists of the Young Front movement, Kiryl Kavaliou, Zmitser Skachkou and Ivan Zaitsau, were detained on 2 June in Homel, while collecting signatures for the abolishment of Decree #60 On measures to improve the use of the national segment of the internet.
