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Wife of political prisoner Ihar Losik: «They organized a torture chamber for my husband»
September 30, 2020
ANDREI BASTUNETS: Today, the law does not defend us
September 18, 2020
Cameraman Uladzimir Luniou: ‘I didn’t belive we would get out of there alive’
September 04, 2020
Declaring war on the truth: the crackdown on independent media in Belarus
August 28, 2020
Riot policeman deliberately shoots at Nasha Niva journalist Natalia Lubneuskaya from 10 meters VIDEO
August 26, 2020
“I will murder you. I can do it today.” Journalists from Babruysk Clobbered and Tortured
Representatives of law-enforcement agencies brutally detained four independent journalists in Babruysk (Mahilou region) on August 10, 2020.
Three of them were detained next to the local pretrial detention center, where the relatives of the previously locked up Babruysk dwellers gathered and waited for court decisions.
The fourth journalist was taken into custody at his wife’s work place.
August 23, 2020
Journalist Ivan Murauyou talks about his three days in detention
Today at 6.37 a.m. Ivan had tears of joy in his eyes, walking into his apartment building 21 Bedy Street after his release from Akrestsina detention center.
August 16, 2020
Journalist Tatsiana Belashova: Akrestsina is a manmade hell
August 16, 2020
Independent media advocate and journalist tell of challenges covering Belarus’s upcoming elections and coronavirus
July 03, 2020
Amnesty International: Bloggers and activists arrested in purge ahead of the presidential election must be released
June 30, 2020
RSF calls for EU pressure after wave of arrests of journalists in Belarus
June 24, 2020
How Belarusian officials withhold information about COVID-19 from the public. Editors of Belarusian media tell their stories
State propaganda accuses independent colleagues of misinformation and whipping up public hysteria, authorities threaten them with warnings and fines. At the same time, officials meet the journalists with a wall of silence.
It is extremely difficult to get either their comments, or official responses to media enquiries.
Belarusian Association of Journalists asked colleagues from different media to tell their stories on how officials denied them information.
May 28, 2020
Journalist Siarhei Satsuk asked to publish this text in case of his arrest
A few months ago, EJ.BY chief editor, Siarhei Satsuk faced pressure from the high and the mighty and left a text with Euroradio he asked to publish in case of his arrest. He describes the reasons for his possible arrest and the threats he had received from the "messenger" — a representative of a businessman from the health care industry.
On March 25, 2020, Satsuk was arrested by officers of the Financial Investigation Department of the State Control Committee of Belarus. Allegedly, he is suspected of taking a bribe.
March 30, 2020
Tatsiana Tkachova: If I stop loving the process, stop loving the way the cherries bloom, then it’s time to die
March 02, 2020
After the parliamentary elections: political and media freedom in Belarus
December 03, 2019
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