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Freelancer in Homel Gets the Second Fine in a Month
January 20, 2016
Freelancer in Homel Gets the Second Fine in a Month
January 20, 2016
Freelancer Fined in Homel
January 19, 2016
Freelancer Fined in Homel
January 19, 2016
NGO Assembly Picks Leaders of the Civil Society
January 18, 2016
NGO Assembly Picks Leaders of the Civil Society
January 18, 2016
EFJ president: It is worrying that the government is renewing this bad practice with a new wave of prosecution against freelance journalists”
Belarus continues its bad practice by handing over the first fine of the year on 13 January to freelance journalist, Larysa Shchyrakova, for working with “foreign media”. Following the ruling, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) have called for an immediate appeal of the ruling and urged the government to scrap the existing law.
January 15, 2016
EFJ president: It is worrying that the government is renewing this bad practice with a new wave of prosecution against freelance journalists”
January 15, 2016
The First Fine to a Freelance Journalist in 2016: 22 base amounts
A journalist and a BAJ member Larysa Shchyrakova has been fined by Homiel District Court 22 base amounts (4 million 620 thousand Belarusian rubles – around EUR 225). She was found guilty of breaking article 22.9 of Belarusian Code on Administrative Offenses (‘Illegal Production and Violation of Mass Media Products’). De-facto, she was punished for cooperation with a foreign media outlet without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. The case was considered by the judge Aliaksandr Lisouski on January 13, 2016.
January 13, 2016
The First Fine to a Freelance Journalist in 2016: 22 base amounts
A journalist and a BAJ member Larysa Shchyrakova has been fined by Homiel District Court 22 base amounts (4 million 620 thousand Belarusian rubles – around EUR 225). She was found guilty of breaking article 22.9 of Belarusian Code on Administrative Offenses (‘Illegal Production and Violation of Mass Media Products’). De-facto, she was punished for cooperation with a foreign media outlet without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. The case was considered by the judge Aliaksandr Lisouski on January 13, 2016.
January 13, 2016
BAJ Appeals to President’s Administration Regarding Persecution of Freelancers
January 11, 2016
BAJ Appeals to President’s Administration Regarding Persecution of Freelancers
January 11, 2016
ONT TV Channel Ignored Entrepreneurs in Brest
January 11, 2016
ONT TV Channel Ignored Entrepreneurs in Brest
January 11, 2016
Freelance Journalists Face another Wave of Prosecution in Belarus: Police Report Made against Larysa Shchyrakova (Homiel)
January 04, 2016
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