Journalist Larysa Shchyrakova was fined in amount of 35 base rates (805 Belarusian rubles)

The jour­nal­ist was found guilty of the ille­gal cre­ation of media prod­ucts for the TV chan­nel «Bel­sat».

In July police made an admin­is­tra­tive pro­to­col for the ille­gal pro­duc­tion of media pro­duc­tion by Shchyrako­va. Police­men drew up a pro­to­col for the video about the inten­tion of the author­i­ties to demol­ish more than fifty pri­vate hous­es in Gomel with­in the bound­aries of the streets Bog­dana Hmel­nit­sko­go – Rechit­sa avenue — Chkalo­va. This inten­tion of the author­i­ties has caused out­rage among many res­i­dents here. The chair­per­sons of the dis­trict admin­is­tra­tion and the office of the city’s archi­tec­ture had to orga­nize the meet­ing of the towns­peo­ple on June 10. This is what Larysa shot the video about and post­ed on the video-host­ing com­pa­ny Youtube plat­form. The TV chan­nel «Bel­sat» used some footages in the sto­ry: «Offi­cials had allowed us to build a house and now they want to tear it down.»

Shchyrako­va came to the court with a bun­dle of gar­lic. She said it is nec­es­sary to have gar­lic with her to scare away evil spir­its in the court. The last time this jour­nal­ist came to the court with a rope noose around her neck.

Larysa refused to tes­ti­fy against her­self: «It makes no sense to say any­thing, because still deci­sion is not tak­en in the court and but in the gov­ern­men­tal offices. The court is only accept­ing penal­ties against inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists.»

This is the fourth penal­ty of Larysa Shchyrako­va this year for the ille­gal cre­ation of media pro­duc­tion. She had also a fine for par­tic­i­pat­ing in an unsanc­tioned event – as a jour­nal­ist she worked dur­ing the ral­ly of «nedar­maedy (against the Decree #3 on Social Depen­den­cy)» in Rogachev.
The total amount of fines of Larysa Shchyrako­va is 3381 BYN this year.