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Police persecutes Brest journalist

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Police persecutes Brest journalist

An administrative case against Alina Litvinchuk is being prepared on charges relating Article 22.9 of the Administrative Code of Belarus (illegal production and dissemination of mass media goods).

The journalist from Brest was informed about that by a district policeman Andrei Ivanitski, Viasna human rights centre’s website informs.

It happened when the policeman visited a dwelling place when Alina Litvinchuk was there. First the policeman questioned the journalist as a witness in some criminal incident – a beating of a citizen, which happened in the centre of the city. When Alina Litvinchuk explained that she had nothing to tell about this case, as she hadn’t been in Brest on that day, Ivanitski suddenly said that a new criminal case against the independent journalist was to be opened, and even tried to give her a summons for a court session on April 29.

Alina Litvinchuk refused to sign the document that she had received the summons until she is officially interrogated and allowed reading the materials of the case. Then the policeman drew up another writ, and basing upon it the journalist was summoned to a community police office #5 of Brest to be interrogated as a suspect. But when Litvinchuk came to the police office, there was no district policeman there, and she failed to see him after some waiting. However, Andrei Ivanitski didn’t answer calls of the journalist, when she tried to reach him on the phone.

We remind that this year Alina Litvinchuk has been found guilty two times on charges relating “illegal production and dissemination of mass media items.” On January 13 she was fined 30 basic units, and in February – 40 more basic units, and notably, the journalist was not invited to the second court.

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