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Journalist Tatsiana Bublikava warned by procuracy

2011 2011-03-02T19:23:16+0200 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en

The journalist was issued with an official warning for covering the events of 19 December in the Nezalezhnastsi Square in Minsk without an accreditation, though earlier the court had punished her with ‘participation in unauthorized action’.

As said by the journalist, prosecutor Pavel Yeliseyeu referred to the report of her detention at the protest action while issuing the warning. In this report she wrote that she had been there on a journalist mission. Bublikava was also shown photos in which she could be seen taking interviews from participants of the action, and print-outs from the internet materials, where the phrases that she works for the BelSat TV channel were underlined with a marker.

‘On 20 December the court didn’t believe to my testimony and sentenced me to 10 days of arrest for the alleged chanting of anti-state slogans. By this warning the prosecutor actually confessed that the court had punished me groundlessly,’ commented Tatsiana Bublikava.

At the same time, the journalist also disagrees with the warning. Tatsiana says that she tried to explain to the prosecutor that she was working as a non-staff journalist for the Polish firm N.E.W.S. Informacja, which is not a mass media. ‘But these nuances seem to be beyond his comprehension’, she added.

Tatsiana Bublikava informed the BelSat about her intention to appeal both the court verdict and the prosecutorial warning, because the formulation that she worked for a foreign media didn’t meet the reality.

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