One more propaganda film shown by Belarusian TV
- 26.01.2010, 10:04
“The Technology of Provocations”, a film created by the state Belarusian TV, narrates that Belarusian oppositionists are preparing all kinds of provocations in the Internet.
As informed by “Radio Svaboda”, only shooting of some youth rallies and of a Young Front member Artsyom Dubski made two years ago was shown. The authors of the film stated that the young activists was arrested twp years ago for turning Asipovichy head office of “Yung Front” into a “nest of vice”, ad he was detained by police intoxicated. According to the film authors, Dubski escaped to Ukraine to evade punishment, and was sentenced to two years of imprisonment for that.
The press-secretary of the “Young Front” Tatsyana Shaputska evicted from the Belarusian State University for participation in the Civil Forum of Eastern Partnership Program in Brussels they told that in her explanatory note she wrote herself that “she intentionally violated internal regulations”.
The film creators told about provocations prepared by a team of people with computers, offering virtual games as an example. At that moment the viewers were demonstrated websites of “Radio Svaboda”, “Narodnaya Volya” and the European Radio for Belarus.
After the film screening one of the leaders of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Vintsuk Vyachorka stated: “Frankly speaking, I was expecting some progress since Azaronak’s period. And it was a demonstration of some internet games. A viewer won’t understand what this film is about”.
We remind that “Young Front” activists Artsyom Dubski was sentenced to a year in minimum security penal colony for violation of the rules of serving punishment in the notorious Case of 14, when 14 youth activists were sentenced to restriction of liberty for their participation in protests rallies of entrepreneurs. In 2009, Amnesty International recognized the participants of the Process of 14 prisoners of conscience. In 2010 Human Righst Watch named Dubski political prisoner alongside with Vaukavysk businessmen Mikalai Autukhovich, Uladzimir Asipenka, Yury Lyavonau.
Tatsyana Shaputska was expelled from the university after she took part in the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in Brussels. Tatsyana Shaputska represented the Belarusian civil society at the Eastern Partnership Forum in Brussels. She met with the leadership of European countries and the EU, including Carl Bildt, the Foreign Minister of Sweden, holding EU presidency, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy. During the forum, when reports about the threat of the activist’s expulsion appeared, Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Carl Bildt, as well as other high-ranking participants of the Forum assured participants of the event that they would follow the developments concerning Tatsyana Shaputska.