BDG Reporter Threatened By Avenge :: Charter'97 :: News

On January 11 overnight reporter of the Belarusian Business Newspaper in Homiel region Iryna Makovetskaya received an anonymous phone warning. An unknown man has been calling her several times within an hour and demanded her to stop her journalistic activities, otherwise threatening to “bury” her. The journalist managed to tape one of the calls. On January 11 she addressed a police with an appeal to disclose the unknown.

As Iryna told press service of the Belarusian Journalist Association, a voice of a young man called himself a representative of the Belarusian people. He insulted the woman, accused her of “hate to the Belarusian president and Belarusian people and claimed that despite of her struggle the referendum and the third term are to be for sure, and one can count the days until the BGD disappear.

During one of the calls the unknown said that he acts on the order of some two persons. He said that he personally did not like Iryna’s article about new prime minister Sidorski (the article was published in the beginning of December). The unknown also warned that the journalist poke her nose into other’s money in another article, concerning BST winery. (As Iryna Makavetskaya said, in this article substantial sums of money appeared, and the KGB establishments were mentioned as one of the sides in the conflict).