Supreme Court didn’t allow BAJ’s appeal against Justice Ministry’s warning. Next session is scheduled for August 27

Today the Supreme Court of Belarus con­sid­ered the appeal of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ) against the warn­ing issued by the Min­istry of Jus­tice fol­low­ing an inspec­tion of the orga­ni­za­tion’s records.

The warn­ing point­ed out that the office lease con­tracts of the orga­ni­za­tion’s branch­es in Homel and Mal­adzech­na had expired. BAJ firm­ly dis­agreed with this and pre­sent­ed argu­ments and evi­dence of its right­ness in its appeal to the Supreme Court.

On August 23, Judge of the Supreme Court Valiantsi­na Kulik con­sid­ered the appeal of the jour­nal­ist orga­ni­za­tion and upheld the warn­ing of the Min­istry of Jus­tice. BAJ intends to appeal the deci­sion.

Despite this, on August 27, Judge of the Supreme Court Inesa Laza­viko­va will con­sid­er the suit of the Min­istry of Jus­tice for liq­ui­da­tion of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists.