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.

26.08.2025

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 […]

21.08.2025

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.

11.08.2025

Statement on recognition of Aleh Khamenka as a political prisoner

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

09.07.2025

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.

12.06.2025

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.

09.06.2025

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, […]

09.06.2025

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. 

21.05.2025

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.

17.03.2025

Campaign Call: Free Mzia Today

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

21.02.2025

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 […]

29.01.2025

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 […]

24.01.2025

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.

20.12.2024

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.

16.12.2024

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.

22.11.2024