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Journalist Beaten in Court Building
Journalist Pavel Dabravolski was covering a scandalous graffiti case when he was detained, beaten and fined.
January 25, 2016
KGB Suspends Criminal Case against Alesin
January 25, 2016
KGB Suspends Criminal Case against Alesin
January 25, 2016
Russian Content Cedes Positions in Belarus
January 21, 2016
Russian Content Cedes Positions in Belarus
January 21, 2016
Freelancer in Homel Gets the Second Fine in a Month
On January 20, the court of Karma district (Homel region) fined freelancer Kastus Zhukouski for 30 basic amounts.
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
On January 15, the Assembly of Nongovernmental Organizations held the 7th awarding ceremony for the prize “Champions 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
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