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Access to popular local news site blocked over “extremist” content
Minsk, 7 September. Access to the Media-Polesye online news publication has been blocked by decision of the Brest Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Tuesday.
September 08, 2021
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BelaPAN current and former directors charged with tax evasion
Minsk, 7 September. BelaPAN Director General Iryna Lieŭšyna and Dzmitryj Navažylaŭ, the news agency’s former director general, have been formally charged with tax evasion under Part Two of the Criminal Code’s Article 243, a source with knowledge of the matter told BelaPAN.
September 08, 2021
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Another journalist linked to sports news site arrested over protests
Minsk, 7 September. Andrej Masloŭski, a journalist who worked for the now-blacklisted sports news website by.tribuna.com for more than a decade, was arrested on September 6.
September 08, 2021
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Crackdown on independent journalists continues in Belarus
Minsk, 7 September. A criminal case has been opened against another journalist as the authorities’ crackdown on independent media outlets shows no signs of abating.
September 07, 2021
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Authorities reject request for release of prominent journalist Andrej Skurko
The Investigative Committee of Belarus has turned down a request for the release of Andrej Skurko, a prominent journalist and the head of the online publication Naša Niva’s advertising and marketing department, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
September 03, 2021
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Authorities raid homes of sports journalists
Maksim Bierazinski, who heads the popular sports news website tribuna.com and is currently staying abroad, had his Minsk apartment searched on September, 1.
September 03, 2021
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Media manager Andrei Aliaksandrau suspected of tax evasion
According to the lawyer of journalist and media manager Andrei Aliaksandrau, he is suspected of tax evasion that resulted in major damage.
September 02, 2021
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IFJ President Younes MJahed: We strongly condemn liquidation BAJ
The Belarus Supreme Court dissolved on 27 August the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), the only independent representative organisation of journalists and media workers in Belarus and one of the country’s most prominent champions of freedom of expression. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) strongly condemn this parody of justice.
August 30, 2021
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European Federation of Journalists and International Federation of Journalists strongly condemn liquidation BAJ
The Belarus Supreme Court dissolved today the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), the only independent representative organisation of journalists and media workers in Belarus and one of the country’s most prominent champions of freedom of expression. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemn this parody of justice.
August 27, 2021
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IFEX stands with Belarusian Association of Journalists
IFEX stands with Belarusian Association of Journalists following court-ordered dissolution, calls on global community to support Belarusian rights defenders.
August 27, 2021
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Supreme Court liquidated Belarusian Association of Journalists
On August 27, according to the decision of the Supreme Court, BAJ representative "misunderstood the law", and all their arguments as to no legal grounds to sustain the liquidation claim should be considered unimportant.
Judge of the Supreme Court Inesa Lazavikova.
August 27, 2021
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Supreme Court liquidated Belarusian Association of Journalists
According to the decision of the Supreme Court, BAJ representative "misunderstood the law", and all their arguments as to no legal grounds to sustain the liquidation claim should be considered unimportant.
August 27, 2021
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Supreme Court didn’t allow BAJ’s appeal against Justice Ministry’s warning. Next session is scheduled for August 27
August 23, 2021
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Human rights defenders call to release BelaPAN employees
August 20, 2021
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Minsk: Several defendants in so called Press Club Belarus case at liberty
According to our own information, Yuliya Slutskaya, the founder of Press Club Belarus, its directors Syarhei Alsheuski and Ala Sharko, cameraman Pyotr Slutski have been released from pre-trial detention centre Nr 1 in Minsk.
August 20, 2021
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