http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/09/belarus-europe-failure/ for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/09/belarus-europe-failure/#comment-16422 Guilty of calling Europe’s last dictator a dictator | UNCUT Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:28:24 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=40338#comment-16422 [...] The Belarusian Association of Journalists has campaigned to change the law on defamation, but without success. In 2003 it collected 7,000 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of the articles on defamation of state officials from the criminal code, on the grounds that they contravened the constitution’s statement that all citizens are equal before the law – but the constitutional court ruled that the law on defamation was consistent with the principles of the constitution. Until the law is changed, journalists and activists facing defamation actions in Belarus will be up against the might of the whole state machine. [...]

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