Video: Trial begins for editor in chief of tut.by

A criminal case against Maryna Zolatava, editor in chief of tut.by, started to be heard in Minsk on February 12.

The trial is presided over by Judge Alyaksandr Petrash of the Zavodski District Court, but it is taking place at the Maskowski District Court, as there is a more spacious courtroom there.

Ms. Zolatava was among more than a dozen journalists accused over unauthorized access to the paid-subscriber section on the website of the government’s news agency BelTA.

Fourteen journalists, including BelaPAN’s Editor in Chief Iryna Lewshyna and staff writer Tanya Korovenkova, were charged with unauthorized access to computer information and one – Maryna Zolatava –  was charged with “inaction by an official.”