VIENNA, 12 December 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today denounced the continued oppression of free media in Belarus, following recent and repeated persecutions of journalists and members of the independent Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ). On 11 December a court in the town of Slonim fined Ales Zalevski, a journalist with Polish-based Belsat TV, for working without accreditation. On 2 December a district court in Grodno imposed a fine on freelance journalist Andrey Meleshko for working with Polish-based Radio Raciya without accreditation. Earlier this year both Zalevski and Meleshko received administrative penalties on the …read more
Source: OSCE
