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On Tuesday, it was learned that the criminal prosecution of the so-called "BelTA case" against five employees of the Tut.by portal had been dropped. Among them are editors Galina Ulasik, Anna Kaltygina and Dmitry Bobrik. On Thursday, BelaPAN reported on the satisfaction of the petition to close criminal proceedings against the editor-in-chief of the news agency Irina Levshina. For example, Marina Zolotova, the editor-in-chief of the Tut.by portal, remains the only defendant.
On 26 November, the criminal proceedings against Tut.by's editor-in-chief Uliana Boboed and BelaPAN columnist Tatiana Korovenkova and the editor-in-chief of the website "Belarusians and the market" Aleksey Zhukov were abandoned.
"Requests from journalists to end the criminal proceedings on the basis of art. 86 of the Criminal Code (Exemption from criminal liability with administrative involvement of a person) was met on 27 November – BelaPAN reports. – The journalists repaid the damages (from 3,000 to 17,000 rubles) and paid administrative fines of 30 base units (735 rubles). Now, in the case of BelTA, they are witnesses. A written commitment to not leave the country was canceled, the ban on leaving the country was lifted. "
"The same petition from the editor of our agency, Irina Levshina, was accepted today 29 November – writes BelaPAN. – It paid an administrative fine of 30 basic units (735 rubles) and the preventive measures were also canceled. The editor of BelaPAN was returned to the hard drives seized in August during a search of her home, as well as during a search of the editor. Previously, Levshina had repaid the damage of an amount exceeding 12,000 rubles. "
Marina Zolotova, editor-in-chief of the Tut.by portal, is the only person charged in a criminal case. She was charged under Part 2 of the art. 425 of the Penal Code (official inaction). The penalties provided for in this article include a fine of up to five years in prison.
Recall that from August 7 to 9, Tut.by editorial offices, BelaPAN news agencies, other media outlets and journalists' homes were searched.
Tut.by editor Marina Zolotova, editors of the Anna Koltygina portal, Ulyana Boboed, Galina Ulasik, Anna Yermachonok, Dmitry Bobrik, as well as the former editor-in-chief Yevgenia Berezyuk, the editor-in-chief BelaPAN, Irina Levshina, and BelaPAN International Observer, Tatiana Korovenkova, Pavlyuk Bykovsky, correspondent for Deutsche Welle, editor-in-chief of the website "Belorussians and the Market", Alexei Zhukov, and editor-in-chief of the portal Realt.by Vladislav Kuletsky.
Many of them spent a day or more in a temporary detention center. After being released, most of the suspects were prevented from leaving the country. The penalties provided for in the articles are punishable by fines ranging from a fine to a prison term.
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