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  • Journalists Detained in BelTA Case

    On the morning of 7 August, the Investigative Committee came with search warrants to the offices of Tut.by portal and news agency BelaPAN, as well as to the apartments of some journalists of these media. We currently know about the arrests of seven journalists.

     

    Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee launched a crim­i­nal case for unau­tho­rized access to com­put­er infor­ma­tion under Arti­cle 349 Part 2 of the Crim­i­nal Code «Unau­tho­rized access to com­put­er infor­ma­tion».

    The basis for ini­ti­at­ing a crim­i­nal case was a report by BelTA uni­tary enter­prise about glitch­es when access­ing a paid sub­scrip­tion to the ser­vices pro­vid­ed by BelTA to one of its cus­tomers.

    Maryna Zolatava

    Edi­tor in chief of the Tut.by por­tal.  Accord­ing to the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee, she is detained on sus­pi­cion of vio­lat­ing Arti­cle 349 Part 2 of the Crim­i­nal Code «Unau­tho­rized access to com­put­er infor­ma­tion».

    Hanna Kaltyhina

    Copy edi­tor of Tut.by. Detained on sus­pi­cion of vio­lat­ing Arti­cle 349 Part 2 of the Crim­i­nal Code «Unau­tho­rized access to com­put­er infor­ma­tion».

    Hanna Yermachonak

    Edi­tor of Sci­ence Pop sec­tion at Tut.by. Arrest­ed, but her sta­tus is unknown.

    Ulyana Babayed

    Head of «Soci­ety» sec­tion at Tut.by. Accord­ing to her hus­band, she has been arrest­ed, the police searched her home and seized all the com­put­er equip­ment.

    Halina Ulasik

    Edi­tor of Tut.by. Her daugh­ter was informed by the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee that Hali­na had been detained under arti­cle 349 of the Crim­i­nal Code for three days.

    Tatsiana Karavenkova

    Bela­PAN reporter, inter­na­tion­al issues. Detained on sus­pi­cion of vio­lat­ing Arti­cle 349 Part 2 of the Crim­i­nal Code «Unau­tho­rized access to com­put­er infor­ma­tion».

    Dzmitry Bobryk

    Edi­tor of Finances sec­tion at Tut.by. Arrest­ed, but his sta­tus is unknown.

     

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