Public Prosecutor’s office to Suspect Internet Mass Media of «State Discrediting» :: Charter'97 :: News

Yesterday journalist Ivan Roman was called to the public prosecutor’s office of the Leninsky district in Harodnya .The prosecutor started investigating if Ivan Roman had been the author of “the governmental body discrediting” news story published at the Radio Ratsia site in July.

It was the news story on the militia department of the Kastrichnitsky district moving into a new building that was considered as discrediting. In the publication it was written that the militiamen left a number of curiosities in the former building, among those being documents on criminal cases and the cut-off human fingers in the jar, the press service of the non-governmental organization ”Belarusian Association of Journalists” informs.

According to the deputy prosecutor of the Leninsky district in Harodnya Alyaksandr Abramovich who interrogated the journalist, the order to make a check was given by the regional public prosecutor’s office and signed by the deputy prosecutor of the Harodnya region Yaugen Trutko. The order had been sent there by certain”influential body”. Ivan Roman was refuse of looking at the document. Prosecutor Abramovich grounded the refusal by referring to the “confidentiality of the investigation procedure”.

No report was made on the talk with the journalist at the public prosecutor’s office.