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"I Am Like Larysa Shchyrakova"

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"I Am Like Larysa Shchyrakova"
LARYSA SCHYRAKOVA

Homel bloggers made a video in support of the independent journalist and freedom of speech in Belarus.

Bloggers from the Internet project Rotarnaya Zhatka (the Belarusian Experiment Field channel on youtube.com) created a video in support of journalist Larysa Shchyrakova, who is to be tried soon for "illegal acquisition and dissemination of information."

In the video, the bloggers dramatized the everyday life of independent journalists: people in civilian clothes detain a journalist during her work, her camera is seized, taken to an unknown direction. At the end of the video there is an appeal to come to the court to express solidarity with the journalist.

"The persecution of journalists in Belarus is permanent," – Viktar Rubtsou, one of the authors of the video, says. – "There is a deliberate destruction of alternative information sources. We want to draw attention to this problem, so that repressions against journalists get in the top of the news. We are bloggers, not journalists, but we also collect and disseminate information, and therefore, of course, we are in solidarity with the journalist."

"I am very glad that the blogging community in Homel is showing solidarity," – Larysa Shchyrakova comments to Belsat. – Solidarity and support are very important in such matters. If there are 50 people coming to the court, where the political case is being considered, those who persecute journalists may lose the desire to arrange those trials."

Before the trial, social and political activists, bloggers and journalists plan to arrange a flash mob in support of the journalist: "I collect and disseminate information, I'm like Larisa Shchyrakova."

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