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One Fine, One Case Dismissed in Homel Region
February 04, 2016
One Fine, One Case Dismissed in Homel Region
On February 4, the Buda-Kashaliova court fined Kastus Zhukouski for 40 b.a. (8 million 400 thousand rubles).
February 04, 2016
Zhanna Litvina and Ales Bialiatski meet with EU representatives in Brussels
February 04, 2016
Zhanna Litvina and Ales Bialiatski meet with EU representatives in Brussels
February 04, 2016
BAJ Appeals to Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression
BAJ sent urgent letters to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression David Kaye, informing about the recent violent attack on the correspondent of TUT.by portal Pavel Dabravolski, and about the continuing administrative prosecution of freelance journalists contributing to foreign mass media without accreditation.
February 03, 2016
BAJ Appeals to Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression
BAJ sent urgent letters to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression David Kaye, informing about the recent violent attack on the correspondent of TUT.by portal Pavel Dabravolski, and about the continuing administrative prosecution of freelance journalists contributing to foreign mass media without accreditation.
February 03, 2016
Journalists Petition to Investigate the Beating Case
February 01, 2016
Journalists Petition to Investigate the Beating Case
Journalists filed a collective petition to the Ministry of Information and the General prosecutor’s office demanding to consider the incident of beating of Pavel Dabravolski, identify and bring to liability the policemen involved in the beating, and to take measure to prevent such incidents in future.
February 01, 2016
Alesin’s Case Suspended through Elimination of a Criminal Article
On January 25, the media reported that the criminal case against the journalist Aliaksandr Alesin had been suspended. It turned out that probably the case was suspended due to the fact that article 356.1, with which he had been charged (establishing cooperation with special services, security or intelligence services of a foreign state), was eliminated from the Criminal Code by the Law dated January 5, 2016.
January 28, 2016
Alesin’s Case Suspended through Elimination of a Criminal Article
January 28, 2016
Belarus detains and fines journalist for filming police attacking protesters
Paul Dabravolski, a reporter working for the Belarusian news website TUT.BY was arrested and given a fine of 9.450.000 Belarusian rubles (420 EUR) for filming police beating two protesters during a court hearing on a graffiti case on 25 January. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) have today condemned the arrest and urged the authority to withdraw all charges against Dabravolski.
January 28, 2016
Belarus detains and fines journalist for filming police attacking protesters
January 28, 2016
OSCE Representative condemns police violence against journalist in Belarus and reiterates call on authorities to stop persecuting members of media
January 27, 2016
OSCE Representative condemns police violence against journalist in Belarus and reiterates call on authorities to stop persecuting members of media
VIENNA, 27 January 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned an attack against a journalist by police officers in Belarus, and called on the authorities to ensure journalists’ safety.
January 27, 2016
BAJ Demands Criminal Investigation into the Fact of Beating a Journalist
January 26, 2016
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