Novy Chas warned by Ministry of Information. Two warnings are enough for starting liquidation procedure

An issue of Novy Chas news­pa­per

Accord­ing to the Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion, Novy Chas pub­lished the fol­low­ing arti­cles in vio­la­tion of the Law on Mass Media:

«Why there was, and there will be no dia­log», page 4, # 3 of 22 Jan­u­ary 2021;

«Crim­i­nal» 2020. How and what pro­test­ers received prison terms for»; page 5,# 3 of 22 Jan­u­ary 2021;

«Peo­ple were beat­en hard while I was ques­tioned near­by. Noone cared», page 6–7, # 3 of 22 Jan­u­ary 2021;

«Ghet­to for those in pow­er» page  3, № 4 of Jan­u­ary 29, 2021.

«What prob­lem do those who think they have pow­er have with the inde­pen­dent media?  Why have they been hunt­ing for inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists for so many months already? Some are not print­ed, some lost their media sta­tus, and some have been thrown behind bars. What for? For the truth. The truth today is the worst crime. Espe­cial­ly if mil­lions of peo­ple want to know the truth», — chief edi­tor of Novy Chas Aksana Kolb com­ments on the let­ter from the Min­istry.

– The Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion demands «to elim­i­nate the vio­la­tions in ques­tion in the next issue of the news­pa­per, and to report to the Min­istry not lat­er than 5 April 2021». They don’t tell us how to fix them. Should we with­draw all copies of the issue and burn them? Or, write that every­thing in these arti­cles was a lie? I won­der what dif­fer­ence would it make. Would Poli­na, who went through the men­tal and phys­i­cal tor­ture, sud­den­ly get amne­sia? Or, would numer­ous absurd sen­tences passed recent­ly become law­ful? If so, then, dear read­ers , please con­sid­er every­thing that you see in the above men­tioned arti­cles in the issues 3 and 4 as detri­men­tal to the nation­al secu­ri­ty, so for­get every­thing, and don’t tell any­one.

Although I believe that the nation­al inter­ests of my beloved Belarus are dam­aged by some very dif­fer­ent actions.»