Hanna Shchadryna off EU black list, to travel to Vilnius
Hanna Shchadryna, recently off from the EU travel ban, will attend a literary seminar in Vilnius at the invitation o European Humanities University.
Hanna Shchadryna will present her book Not Married: Sex, Love and Family without Marriage in Vilnius. Nasta Mantsevich will present her book Birds there too. The seminar is organized by the EHU Gender Research Centre.
Euroradio contacted Hanna Shchdryna who said she did not want to discuss the black lists anymore. Today, she picked her passport with a Lithuania visa. The ex-deputy editor-in-chief of SB- Belarus Today was the first person to be removed from the EU black list after revision late last year. The journalist was in charge of cultural topics in the publication owned by the Office of the President of Belarus.
Having left her job in the presidential newspaper in 2011, Shchadryna started correspondence with the EU officials. She disagreed with the reason why she had been put on the black list. However, the correspondence brought no result. The journalist did not want to appeal the decision of the European Union in court. But travel restrictions were lifted from her at the end of May 2013.
“We would like to discuss the opportunities/necessity of defending the author’s position, preserving the original message and the strategy of placing our books on the website of double opposites by force,” Hanna Shchadryna described the contents of the seminar on Facebook.
The literature seminar will be held in the German Research Centre in Vilnius, Taur Street, 12. It will be conduced in Belarusian and Russian. Admission is free.
Photo: Facebook.
