“Narodnaya Volya” In Court Again 14:05, 16/06/2005
Today the hearing of the case of the “Narodnaya Volya” newspaper started in the economic Court of Minsk. The lawsuit was filed by administration of Salihorsk state mining and chemical technical school. They accuse the editorial office of the newspaper with damaging reputation. The technical school claims that its students never signed the opposition’s “Address to the People of Belarus” that the paper published, and demand to call this information untrue and libellous, to make the newspaper publish disclaimer and compensate state duty amounting to 10 basic units.
The suit concerns the article “Firm Voice of the Young” in the newspaper number 77. It was said there that 37 students signed the address in support of the movement “Peoples Will”. The administration claims that some of the persons are not the students of the technical school, and some had not signed the address, the Belarusian Association of Journalists informs.
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