Prosecutor General Wants to Fine Mass Media for Bias

Ali­ak­san­dr Kaniuk was asked about the deten­tions of jour­nal­ists in the streets in March. He replied that “we should fig­ure out what kind of col­leagues they are”.

“It is high time to raise the ques­tions how infor­ma­tion is pre­sent­ed in mass media. For exam­ple, in Ger­many mass media get fined for ten­den­tious cov­er­age,” added the Pros­e­cu­tor Gen­er­al.

By the way, on March 29, the Pros­e­cu­tor General’s office replied to BAJ’s peti­tion demand­ing to inves­ti­gate the deten­tions of jour­nal­ists in March. The agency declined to han­dle the peti­tion on the mer­its, claim­ing that inter­ests of the aggriev­ed per­sons are pre­sent­ed by par­ties of the admin­is­tra­tive process, defend­ers, legal rep­re­sen­ta­tives etc. accord­ing to art. 2.16 of the Code on Admin­is­tra­tive Pro­ce­dures. And BAJ was not the per­son enti­tled to present the inter­ests of the aggriev­ed per­sons.

Ali­ak­san­dr Kaniuk also answered some oth­er ques­tions about the street actions. His view­point is that the Min­sk City Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee did not vio­late the law on mass events when twice delayed issu­ing the per­mit for March 25 (note – the appli­cants planned to hold the event in the evening in Inde­pen­dence Avenue, but the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee allowed it at noon in Ban­ga­lore Square; the reply should have been giv­en five work­ing days ahead of the event, but was delayed twice and announced on the very eve). The Pros­e­cu­tor Gen­er­al said that they had stud­ied the cir­cum­stances, and every­thing had been done with­in the law”. He also thinks that the peo­ple who were detained on March 25 were “not peace­ful cit­i­zens, the issue has to be fig­ured out”.
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