It was a clear act of state-sponsored terrorism. An Irish passenger plane from the Irish budget airline Ryan Air, while on its way from Athens to Vilnius, was forced to land in the Belarusian capital Minsk on May 23 only minutes before it was due to leave Belarus’ airspace.
Flimsy claims by Belarusian air traffic controller that a bomb was on board quickly turned out to be a hoax cooked up by the dictatorial regime of the country’s long time leader Alexander Lukashenko. In reality, Lukashenko wanted Belarusian journalist and opposition activist Roman Protasevic (Raman Pratasevich in Belarusian), who was on board the flight, to be forcibly brought to Minsk.
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UPDATE 1 - Acquittal of all defendants in sale of 33% of EVN Bulgaria takes effect - Alfa Finance Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva, Capital
SOFIA (Bulgaria), May 11 (SeeNews) – A decision by a Bulgarian court to acquit one of Alfa Finance Holding’s major shareholders, three employees of its unit Bulbrokers and two ex- government ministers in a case for the sale of a stake in power utility EVN Bulgaria Elektrorazpredelenie has entered into force, Alfa Finance Holding said on Tuesday.
The prosecutor s office decided not to appeal the Appellate Specialised Criminal Court s decision within the 15-day deadline which expired on May 5, Alfa Finance Holding said in a statement.
In the latest ranking by Reporters without Borders, the Nordic countries were again among the winners in the defense of media freedom. What do the governments of these countries do better than others?
In Norway (which, again, placed 1st), a special government commission takes care of formulating a good framework of conditions for the media. In Sweden, where freedom of the press was enshrined as early as 1766, its citizens have an enforceable right to official information. In Denmark, all forms of media receive subsidies.
The COVID-pandemic has made the situation for the media, especially for quality media, more precarious. The advertising pie has become smaller because of competition from social media giants like Google and Facebook. This has resulted in countless jobs in the media industry being lost forever.
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The platform s partner organizations have called on the international community to take decisive action.
An unprecedented wave of repressions against independent journalism in Belarus is described in the annual report of partner organizations of the Council of Europe Platform for the Promotion the Protection of Journalism and the Safety of Journalists, presented on April 28, naviny.online reports.
The partners of the platform are the European Federation of Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, the Association of European Journalists, the human rights organization Article 19, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Index on Censorship, the International Press Institute, the International News Safety Institute, the Rory Peck Trust, the European Broadcasting Union, and PEN International.