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On November 29, the petition of the editor of BelaPAN, Irina Levshina, decided to stop the criminal prosecution on the basis of art. 86 of the Criminal Code (exemption from criminal liability with the involvement of a person with administrative responsibility).
Irina Levshina paid an administrative fine of 30 basic units (735 rubles). Now, in the case of BelTA, she pbades as a witness. A written commitment was revoked, the ban on leaving the country was lifted. In addition, Levshinoy was returned to hard drives imprisoned in August during a search at his home and during a search of the BelaPAN editorial office.
The charges against Irina Levshina were dropped on her birthday.
The lawsuits against seven other employees of TUT.BY have been closed. Previously, several other journalists involved in this case had been placed under administrative responsibility. This became possible after all publishers had repaid the damage (from 3,000 to 17,000 rubles).
Currently, only the editor-in-chief of the TUT.BY portal, ZUTova, is still charged in the "BelTA" case. Marina Zolotov is charged under Part 2 of Art. 425 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (official inaction). Sanctions under this article include a fine of five years imprisonment. A total of 15 journalists and editors were involved in the "BelTA case".
Recall that on August 7, the offices of TUT.BY and BelaPAN were searched and detained. Marina Zolotova, editor-in-chief of TUT.BY, Anna Kaltygina, portal editors, Galina Ulasik and Anna Yermachenok, editor-in-chief of BelaPAN Irina Levshina and observer of the international news agency Tatyana Korovenkova, correspondent for Deutsche Welle Pavel Bykovsky, and editor-in-chief of Belarusians website »Alexey Zhukov. They all spent several days at the Akrestin Temporary Detention Center. On August 27, most of the suspects were banned from leaving the country.
Journalists and editors have supported the European Union, the Council of Europe, the United States and international human rights organizations.
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