Newspaper is blacklisted because of journalist’s engagement in the elections
02.09.2008.
Tags: freedom of expression, mass media, elections-2008.
Source: RFE/RL.
The main editor of Bobruiskiy Kurier Anatol Sanatsenka explains: ‘I am deeply convinced that these displeasing warnings are directly connected to the fact that the deputy editor of our newspaper Ales Chyhir is a registered candidate for the parliament’.
According to Sanatsenka, the officials of the Ministry of Information accuse the newspaper of being registered as a countrywide edition but being distributed on subscription only on the territory of Mahiliou oblast. The second warning concerns alleged reprinting of incorrect information from a web-site.
‘I think that the authorities are ready to suspend the newspaper’s issue for three months or close it. May be, in such a way they are trying to teach us the principles according to which they live. However, we have our own, different principles, the principles by which democratic press is guided all over the world,’ comments Mr. Sanatsenka.
See also
04.12.2008 Barysau: opposition activist is tried in absentia
04.12.2008 Civil activist’s lawsuit concerning election falsifications is turned down
03.12.2008 Slonim: procuracy checks the legality of the activities of a precinct election commission
02.12.2008 Vitsebsk: human rights activist is not allowed to hold pickets
01.12.2008 Reporters Without Borders call Belarusian authorities not to increase surveillance of Internet
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