BAJ Applies to Take Part in the Supervisory Council on the Media of CEC during Parliamentary Elections

Jour­nal­ists sug­gest includ­ing Andrei Bas­tunets, chair of BAJ, and Aleh Aheyeu, lawyer of BAJ, into the Super­vi­so­ry Coun­cil.

The men­tioned coun­cil has been set up by a rul­ing for the peri­od of pre-elec­toral agi­ta­tion, the doc­u­ment dat­ed June 28, 2016. In an inter­view to the Radio Svabo­da, the chair of CEC Lidziya Yarmoshy­na said that all can­di­dates to the Super­vi­so­ry Coun­cil had been sug­gest­ed by the Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion. How­ev­er, she added that the body was still open for sug­ges­tions from “the alter­na­tive jour­nal­is­tic union”, i.e. from BAJ.

The par­lia­men­tary elec­tions are sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 11, 2016.