Statistics and lists of detainees
Belarus. The quantitative media results of the year 2017
101 the number of detained journalists in 2017
69 the number of fines to freelance journalists for cooperation with foreign media without press accreditations in 2017
24 235 EUR the total sum of fines, imposed on journalists for cooperation with foreign mass media in 2017
47 million EUR the total sum of grants to the state-owned media from the state budget in 2017
State Budjet Support To Mass Media in Belarus (2009–2018)
Repressions against journalists in Belarus, 2017 (сhart)
The list includes incidents which the Belarusian Association of Journalists regards as violations of journalists' rights, committed by representatives of the authorities.
* CoAV – Code of Administrative Violations
art. 23.4 – Disobedience to police’s demands
art. 23.34 – Violating the procedure for organizing or holding a mass event
art. 22.9 – The law stipulates that a foreign mass medium’s journalist means “a natural person engaged in collection, editing, creation (preparation) of informational reports and/or materials for a legal person which is entrusted with functions of the editorial board of the mass medium, registered outside the Republic of Belarus, who is connected with this legal person through labor relations and has accreditation in the Republic of Belarus.”
art. 17. 1 – Minor hooliganism.
art. 24.6 - Evasion of appearing to the investigative or judicial execution body upon a summons without a reasonable excuse.
art. 23.4 - Disobedience to police’s demands
art. 9.21 - Violation of copyright and related rights, industrial propriety rights
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