Why? They are already self-destructing.
"Belarus shuts down two newspapers" by Associated Press / April 28, 2011
MINSK — Belarus’s authoritarian government further tightened the screws on dissent yesterday by shutting down two independent newspapers and sending another opposition leader to prison for two years.
The Information Ministry said the daily newspapers Nasha Niva and Narodnaya Volya were closed after receiving two or more warnings in the past year over their political coverage.
Opposition leader Dmitry Bondarenko was found guilty in court of organizing an election-night rally in December to protest the results of the vote that extended the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko....
Police violently dispersed the rally, which drew tens of thousands of protesters. Some 700 people were arrested, including seven presidential candidates.
Seven opposition figures have already been sentenced to jail terms of two to four years for their part in the protest...
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