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    Justice for Journalists: Over 100 Media Workers Behind Bars in Russia and Belarus; 89 Arrested in Absentia

    On the eve of the Inter­na­tion­al Day to End Impuni­ty for Crimes Against Jour­nal­ists, the grim sta­tis­tics sees 103 media work­ers in Russ­ian and Belaru­sian pris­ons and penal colonies. Their com­bined sen­tence is over 740 years.
    October 31, 2025

    iSANS report: The crime of incitement to genocide of Ukrainians in Russian and Belarusian propaganda

    The main objec­tive of this study was to iden­ti­fy, from the entire range of anti-Ukrain­ian rhetoric of Russ­ian and Belaru­sian pro­pa­gan­da, state­ments con­tain­ing “direct and pub­lic incite­ment to com­mit geno­cide” of Ukraini­ans as a nation­al group – an atroc­i­ty crime under inter­na­tion­al law, banned and pun­ish­able by the Con­ven­tion on the Pre­ven­tion and Pun­ish­ment of […]
    September 16, 2025
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    Joint Stakeholder Submission: Belarus in the 50th Session of the UPR Working Group

    Sub­mit­ted by the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (main sub­mit­ting orga­ni­za­tion) and Free Press Unlim­it­ed. Down­load PDF.
    May 26, 2025

    Belarus opens criminal cases against more than 60 journalists in exile

    Doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er Maryia Bulavinskaya’s love of his­to­ry led her to buy a tra­di­tion­al wood home in the Belaru­sian vil­lage of Rogi-Ilet­sky in 2019. Her plans to ren­o­vate and even­tu­al­ly live in the house were put on hold in 2020 when she fled the coun­try out of fear of being detained for her cov­er­age of anti-gov­ern­ment protests. Now, she […]
    May 17, 2025

    Attacks on media workers in Belarus in 2023–2024

    The Jus­tice for Jour­nal­ists Foun­da­tion and the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists have pub­lished a joint report “Attacks on Media Work­ers in Belarus in 2023–2024.”
    February 11, 2025

    In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists

    Chi­na, Israel, and Myan­mar emerged as the world’s three worst offend­ers in anoth­er record-set­ting year for jour­nal­ists jailed because of their work, the Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists’ 2024 prison cen­sus has found. Belarus and Rus­sia round­ed out the top five, with CPJ doc­u­ment­ing its sec­ond-high­est num­ber of jour­nal­ists behind bars – a glob­al total of […]
    January 17, 2025

    Results of the BAJ Study “Situation and Needs of Belarusian Media Representatives”

    The study shows that in addi­tion to polit­i­cal pres­sure from pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ties, media work­ers are also affect­ed by oth­er fac­tors, such as lack of ade­quate access to health care or strug­gles with find­ing sus­tain­able employ­ment.
    December 24, 2024

    RSF: Belarus ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of journalists behind bars

    Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF) annu­al sur­vey released: In 2024, jour­nal­ism pays a dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly high human price in con­flicts and repres­sive regimes.  Down­load PDF.
    December 13, 2024

    The Thomson Reuters Foundation presented a report on support for Belarusian independent journalism

    In the report “Sus­tain­ing inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ism: Civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions’ sup­port for Belaru­sian and Russ­ian exiled media”, pro­duced by The Fix for The Thom­son Reuters Foun­da­tion, comes at a piv­otal moment as the ecosys­tem for exiled inde­pen­dent media in Cen­tral and East­ern Europe con­tin­ues to adapt and devel­op in response to severe polit­i­cal repres­sion in Belarus […]
    December 06, 2024

    Reporters Without Borders: Belarus Is Most Dangerous Country In Europe For Journalists

    April 20, 2021

    Amnesty International: Belarus authorities used torture, ill-treatment against detainees, but no police officer charged yet

    April 08, 2021

    CPJ: Turkmenistan, Iran, Belarus Among World’s ‘Most Censored Countries’

    September 30, 2019

    Human Rights Watch: Media Under Attack as European Games Loom

    May 27, 2019

    Restrictions on Freedom of the Internet / 1.10.2015–31.12.2016

    April 06, 2018
    Statements by BAJ and partners

    Aleh Supruniuk and Pavel Dabravolski recognized as political prisoners

    On August 26, 2025, Belaru­sian human rights orga­ni­za­tions issued a joint state­ment regard­ing jour­nal­ists Aleh Supruniuk and Pavel Dabravol­s­ki, who are behind bars in Belarus.
    August 26, 2025

    Appeal for Support in Preserving the Belarusian-Language Version of LSM+

    Chair­per­son of the Human Rights and Pub­lic Affairs Com­mit­tee of the Saeima Chair­per­son of the Board of Direc­tors of “Latvi­jas Sabiedriskais medi­js” To the Coun­cil of Pub­lic Elec­tron­ic Media of the Repub­lic of Latvia (SEPLPz Saeimas Cil­vēk­tiesību un sabiedrisko lietu komisi­ja   Appeal for Sup­port in Pre­serv­ing the Belaru­sian-Lan­guage Ver­sion of LSM+ as a Key Tool […]
    August 21, 2025

    IFJ demands an end to the criminalization of journalism in Belarus

    The Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (IFJ) joins its affil­i­ate, the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists’ (BAJ), in call­ing for the imme­di­ate release of all jour­nal­ists and media work­ers unjust­ly impris­oned. The IFJ demands that the author­i­ties cease the crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of jour­nal­ism, as well as the harass­ment of jour­nal­ists in Belarus, in exile and their fam­i­ly mem­bers.
    August 11, 2025

    Statement on recognition of Aleh Khamenka as a political prisoner

    The right bar­onies of Belarus made a state­ment on July 9.
    July 09, 2025

    Belarus: Free Belarusian journalists and media workers NOW!

    The Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee of the Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (IFJ) con­ven­ing in Mon­tre­al on 10 and 11 June 2025, demands the release of all Belaru­sian jailed jour­nal­ists and media work­ers.
    June 12, 2025

    IFEX calls on the Venezuelan government to immediately release Eduardo Torres

    The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists joined an open let­ter from inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions demand­ing the release of the Venezue­lan human rights defend­er.
    June 09, 2025

    Urgent Motion. On the need to release all journalists from prison in Belarus

    The Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (EFJ), meet­ing in Budapest, Hun­gary, on 2–3 June, 2025, notes that on May 28 a new  wave of per­se­cu­tion tar­get­ed the few remain­ing pri­vate media out­lets still oper­at­ing in Belaru­sian regions. Sev­er­al media out­lets, includ­ing Vech­erny Bobruisk, babruisk.info, Vol­na­je Hly­boka­je (and its web­site vglybokaye.by), and UzHo­rak, […]
    June 09, 2025

    The time for release is now

    We, the under­signed, are con­cerned that, amid the cur­rent glob­al sit­u­a­tion, the plight of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers in Belarus may slip out of the pub­lic eye. Mean­while, the cat­a­stroph­ic sit­u­a­tion of approx­i­mate­ly 1,200 polit­i­cal pris­on­ers requires imme­di­ate inter­ven­tion. 
    May 21, 2025

    RFE/RL essential as key source of free information for Belarusian society — BAJ statement

    The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists express­es sol­i­dar­i­ty with the employ­ees of Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib­er­ty and Voice of Amer­i­ca, who may face clo­sure due to recent deci­sions by U.S. author­i­ties.
    March 17, 2025

    Campaign Call: Free Mzia Today

    Jour­nal­ists, news­rooms, press free­dom advo­cates, human rights defend­ers, and jour­nal­ists’ orga­ni­za­tions call for Mzia Ama­glo­beli’s release.
    February 21, 2025

    EFJ calls for mobilisation of European donors

    The U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment (USAID), one of the largest offi­cial aid agen­cies in the world, has been instruct­ed to stop projects fol­low­ing a 90-day for­eign aid freeze imposed by Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio. The mea­sure affects dozens of inde­pen­dent media out­lets in more than 30 coun­tries, deprived of U.S. sup­port pro­grams to strength­en […]
    January 29, 2025

    Belarus: ahead of sham election, RSF files ICC complaint for Lukashenko’s crimes against humanity targeting journalists

    After five years of inflict­ing an unprece­dent­ed crack­down on the press, Alexan­der Lukashenko is set to run for a sev­enth pres­i­den­tial term on Sun­day, 26 Jan­u­ary. Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF) has filed a com­plaint with the Inter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) against the Belaru­sian leader for crimes against human­i­ty, as jour­nal­ists con­tin­ue to be over­whelm­ing­ly tar­get­ed […]
    January 24, 2025

    Media organisations in solidarity with journalists and media in Georgia

    Faced with vio­lence, threats, deten­tions, equip­ment destruc­tion and seizure, jour­nal­ists in Geor­gia are enter­ing what is sup­posed to be a fes­tive peri­od with uncer­tain­ty and fear for their safe­ty. Sol­i­dar­i­ty and sup­port is need­ed now more than ever.
    December 20, 2024

    BAJ calls for end to “witch hunt” and use of “anti-extremist” legislation to stifle media

    Just last week, media work­ers from two more region­al pub­li­ca­tions were thrown behind bars. The BAJ esti­mates that at least 45 jour­nal­ists are in prison today.
    December 16, 2024

    Ihar Ilyash recognised as political prisoner

    On Novem­ber 22, 2024, a joint state­ment by Belaru­sian human rights orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing the sit­u­a­tion with jour­nal­ist Ihar Ilyash was pub­lished.
    November 22, 2024
    Operational monitoring

    E‑newsletter: MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS No.2 (80) 2025

    Sit­u­a­tion in Belarus mass media field: april-june 2025. Review. Down­load PDF.
    August 27, 2025

    Monitoring pro-Russian propaganda in Belarusian state-owned television media

    The pri­ma­ry objec­tive of the mon­i­tor­ing is to ascer­tain and doc­u­ment the occur­rence, quan­ti­ty, con­tent and form of pro-Russ­ian (includ­ing anti-West­ern and anti-Ukrain­ian) pro­pa­gan­da in the lead­ing Belaru­sian state-owned tele­vi­sion media, as well as its car­ri­ers and dis­sem­i­na­tors. Down­load PDF BRIEF CONCLUSIONS: As was the case in the pre­vi­ous year, Russ­ian top­ics con­sti­tut­ed a small­er […]
    May 13, 2025

    E‑newsletter: MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS No.1 (79) 2025

    Sit­u­a­tion in Belarus mass media field: jan­u­ary-march 2025. Review. Down­load PDF.
    May 08, 2025

    E‑newsletter ‘Mass Media in Belarus’. No. 4 (78) 2024

    SITUATION IN BELARUS MASS MEDIA FIELD: SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2024. REVIEW. Down­load PDF.
    February 06, 2025

    E‑newsletter: Mass media in Belarus. May-august 2024, #3 (77) 2024

    Sit­u­a­tion in belarus mass media field: may-august 2024. Review. Down­load PDF.
    October 28, 2024

    Monitoring pro-russian propaganda on belarus state television

    Pro-russ­ian pro­pa­gan­da on belarus state tele­vi­sion. Down­load PDF.
    June 21, 2024

    E‑newsletter mass media in Belarus: January-April 2024

    Sit­u­a­tion in belarus mass media field: jan­u­ary-april 2024, review. Down­load PDF.
    June 06, 2024

    E‑NEWSLETTER: MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS IN 2023

    February 01, 2024

    E‑newsletter “Mass Media in Belarus”, #4 (74)

    December 27, 2023

    E‑NEWSLETTER: MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS №3 (73)

    September 04, 2023

    MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS IN 2022

    July 04, 2023

    “Turkmenization is underway in Belarus.” Experts comment on situation with independent journalism in Belarus based on new BAJ and JFJ report

    June 28, 2023

    E‑NEWSLETTER – MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS №2 (72)

    June 05, 2023

    Mass media in Belarus in 2022. Annual review

    January 20, 2023

    E‑NEWSLETTER “MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS”. Monitoring Report 2021

    February 02, 2022
    Statistics and lists of detainees

    Repressions against journalists in Belarus 2025, list of colleagues in prison

    The fol­low­ing jour­nal­ists are in jail at the moment. Kat­siary­na Andree­va, Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau, Dzia­n­is Ivashyn, Andrej Pachobut (Andrzej Poc­zobut), Mary­na Zolata­va,  Liud­mi­la Chek­ina,  Valer­i­ja Kast­si­u­go­va,  Dzmit­ryi Navazhy­lau,  Siarhei Sat­suk,  Andrei Famin,  Ales Sabaleus­ki, Ali­ak­san­dr Ihnat­siuk Yauhen Hlushk­ou Ales Marchanka Vol­ha Radzivon­a­va Anton Kazel­s­ki Dami­il Palian­s­ki, Ihar Ilyash Siarhei Chabot­s­ka Work­ers of the Intex-press edi­to­r­i­al office Aleh […]
    July 27, 2025

    Persecution of Belarusian journalists and media in 2024, in figures

    In 2024, the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ) doc­u­ment­ed exten­sive repres­sion with­in the media sec­tor. A notable trend was the rise of “silent repres­sions,” where law enforce­ment pres­sured vic­tims into keep­ing their per­se­cu­tion con­fi­den­tial.
    December 26, 2024

    Repressions against journalists in Belarus 2024, list of colleagues in prison

    December 05, 2024

    FIGURES OF THE YEAR. Repression of media and journalists in Belarus in 2023

    January 01, 2024

    Repressions against journalists in Belarus 2023

    December 17, 2023

    Repressions against journalists and media in Belarus 2022

    December 31, 2022

    Repressions against journalists and media in Belarus 2022

    December 31, 2022

    BAJ shared results of comprehensive journalists’ survey

    January 10, 2022

    FIGURES OF THE YEAR. Repression of media and journalists in Belarus in 2021

    December 29, 2021

    Figures of the year. Unprecedented repressions against journalists since August 2020

    August 09, 2021

    FIGURES OF THE YEAR. Repression of media and journalists in Belarus in 2020

    January 13, 2021

    Violations of journalists’ rights, infographic (2009–2020)

    December 31, 2020

    Repressions against journalists in Belarus, 2020 (chart)

    December 31, 2020

    Fines to Journalists for Violating Article 22.9 of the Administrative Code (Chart) (Updated)

    June 01, 2020

    Belarus. The quantitative media results of the year 2018

    February 05, 2019
    Annual reports

    MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS 2024

    Mass media in Belarus 2024. Down­load PDF.
    July 07, 2025

    MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS IN 2023

    May 03, 2024

    MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS IN 2022

    CONDITIONS OF INPEPENDENT MEDIA SECTOR ACTIVITY . Down­load PDF.
    March 30, 2023

    Monitoring Report 2021

    April 20, 2022

    Monitoring Report 2020

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    May 05, 2021

    Monitoring Report 2019

    March 31, 2020

    Situation in The Sphere of Mass Media in 2018 (OVERVIEW)

    May 27, 2019

    Monitoring Report 2018

    May 22, 2019

    Monitoring Report 2017

    May 03, 2018

    Monitoring Report 2016

    May 17, 2017

    Monitoring Report 2016

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    May 05, 2017

    Monitoring Report 2015

    March 31, 2016

    E‑NEWSLETTER: MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS 2014 Brief Annual Review

    Bul­letin #6(40)
    January 01, 2015

    Monitoring Report 2013

    January 01, 2014

    Mass Media in Belarus – 2013. Summary Analytical Review

    January 01, 2014
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