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Guarantors for TUT.BY case defenders fined $7,300
According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists, on 10 April Minsk City Court considered the cases of the persons who acted as guarantors of defendants’ appearance in court in the TUT.BY case. TUT.BY staff members Alena Talkachova and Volha Loika were released from custody on the guarantee of their appearance in court. The guarantors were punished with fines, since the journalists ended up leaving the country before the criminal trial.
April 12, 2023
Media manager Kanstantsin Zalatykh sentenced to 4 years in prison
April 06, 2023
Aliaksandr Mantsevich charged with “spreading false information”
This is reported by the Investigative Committee.
Editor-in-chief of Rehijanalnaja Hazeta, Aliaksandr Mantsevich, is accused of "spreading deliberately false information defaming Belarus and its authorities."
April 04, 2023
Rehijanalnaja Hazeta’s editor-in-chief criminally charged and put in custody
March 23, 2023
Journalists Dzmitry Semchanka and Henadz Mazheika sentenced to 3 years in prison for inciting enmity
March 23, 2023
Help for the family of Sergei Satsuk, political prisoner investigative journalist
March 22, 2023
All-National TV anchor Dzmitry Semchanka’s trial starts today
On 21 March, the trial of political TV commentator Dzmitry Semchanka started at Minsk City Court. The well-known regime promoter and head of the presidential pool of journalists was accused of "incitement of social hatred" by means of derogatory comments in Telegram groups. The maximum penalty under this article is up to five years in prison
March 21, 2023
Journalist Ihar Losik attempts suicide in jail
March 20, 2023
Two TUT.BY media workers sentenced to 12 years in prison, three more wanted
March 20, 2023
Infa-Kurier’s editor-in-chief and his deputy detained for 15 days for defying police
March 17, 2023
Valeryia Kastsiuhova and Tatsiana Kuzina sentenced to 10 years in prison
March 17, 2023
Regional mass media representatives searched and detained
According to BAJ sources, on 15 March, law enforcers searched the editorial office of Slutsk independent publication Infa-Kurier. A search was also conducted in the house of Aliaksandr Mantsevich, editor-in-chief of Rehiyanalnaya Hazeta.
March 16, 2023
Prosecutor Seeks 10-Year Prison Terms For Belarusian Activists Considered Political Prisoners
March 06, 2023
Viasna leadership receives from 7 to 10 years in jail
March 03, 2023
Convicted journalist Iryna Slaunikava’s vision deteriorated
Iryna Slaunikava, convicted to 5 years imprisonment for allegedly “creating an extremist formation”, reported vision changes that she attributed to bad lighting in the pre-trial detention center where she had been kept. The workload in the sewing shop of the Homel women’s penitentiary only aggravates the situation. Aliaksandr Loika, Iryna’s husband said that convicted women work as virtually free seamstresses in prison. They have almost no free time because of work.
March 02, 2023
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