Belarus fines independent journalist Marina Zolotova, the editor of a Belarusian independent news website avoided jail but was fined by a court in Minsk in a case denounced by rights activists as censorship. Zolotova has been fined for "unauthorised" access to services provided by the state news agency BelTA. She was detained in August last year with several other journalists. BelTA accused them of failing to pay subscription fees. "I have not yet decided whether I will appeal, because you know that statistics on acquittals are 0.2%. Therefore, to be honest, I didn’t expect such a sentence" she says. IMAGES of the trial AND SOUNDBITES of Marina Zolotova