Police Officer Visited ‘Gazeta Slonimskaya’ Editorial after a Publication about Hazing

The pub­li­ca­tion was con­tributed to ‘Gaze­ta Slonim­skaya’ week­ly by the news­pa­per jour­nal­ists Tat­siana Plakhet­ka, Miki­ta Pas­tuk­ou, and Miko­la Kananovich in Octo­ber 2017.

Dzmit­ry Kirykau, a police offi­cer from Slonim Dis­trict Police Depart­ment came to the ‘Gaze­ta Slonim­skaya’ edi­to­r­i­al before lunch on Novem­ber 9th. He asked the news­pa­per jour­nal­ists to pro­vide expla­na­tions as for the ways they had been prepar­ing the arti­cle about haz­ing.

‘We’ve received an order from the region­al police author­i­ties to con­duct a check on the fact of this pub­li­ca­tion about haz­ing. The top­ic is under spe­cial con­trol these days,’ — the senior lieu­tenant explained the rea­son of his vis­it to ‘Gaze­ta Slonim­skaya’ edi­to­r­i­al head­quar­ters.

The jour­nal­ists pro­vid­ed expla­na­tions to the police offi­cer. How­ev­er, they didn’t reveal the names and con­tacts of the pub­li­ca­tion sources. A ‘Gaze­ta Slonim­skaya’ cor­re­spon­dent Miko­la Kananovich made a self­ie with the police­man and asked his col­league to take a pic­ture of his expla­na­tion note to the police.