Local website editor jailed

September 16, BPN. The editor in chief of the privately-owned Bobruyskyy Kuryer website, Anatol Sanacienka, has been sentenced to 15 days in jail, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported.

It is unclear what offense he was charged with.

The website was launched in June 1998. It was an online version of the Bobruyskyy Kuryer newspaper until 2008, when it transformed into Babrujsk’s news portal. The newspaper was barred from the state’s distribution system in late 2000s and folded in 2010.

Belarus has at least 30 journalists behind bars, the association said.