Homel Journalist Came To Court With Bandaged Mouth In Protest

Larysa Shchyrakova fined for streaming on her Facebook.

In April 2018, Larysa Shchyrakova was streaming from the apartment in Kalinkavichy, where the mothers of the convicted under Article 328 of the Criminal Code were on the hunger strike. The journalist was streaming on her Facebook. Belsat TV channel posted her video on belsat.eu.

We remind that the participants of the hunger strike demanded to soften the punishment on the "drug" article.

As a result, Judge Kuheika Sviatlana decided to punish the journalist for the illegal production and dissemination of information (Article 22.9 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus) with a fine of 40 basic units (Br 980).