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    Wife of political prisoner Ihar Losik: “They organized a torture chamber for my husband”

    The wife of political prisoner Ihar Losik told the media about the conditions of her husband's incarceration in Zhodzina jail. Daria Losik is sure that the jail administration is deliberately creating unbearable conditions for Ihar in the hope to break him and make him incriminate himself and other people. RFE/RL published a video with Daria's story in its Telegram channel.
    September 30, 2020
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    ANDREI BASTUNETS: Today, the law does not defend us

    September 18, 2020
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    Cameraman Uladzimir Luniou: ‘I didn’t belive we would get out of there alive’

    September 04, 2020
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    Declaring war on the truth: the crackdown on independent media in Belarus

    Belarusian journalists have long worked under extremely difficult conditions and have had to contend with limited access to information and the severe curtailment of freedom of speech. Volha Siakhovich looks at the latest media crackdown sparked by the recent presidential election and at how journalists have responded to the government’s actions.
    August 28, 2020
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    Riot policeman deliberately shoots at Nasha Niva journalist Natalia Lubneuskaya from 10 meters VIDEO

    Nasha Niva journalist Natalia Lubneuskaya was injured by a rubber bullet on August 10.
    August 26, 2020
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    “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
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    Journalist Ivan Murauyou talks about his three days in detention

    August 16, 2020
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    Journalist Tatsiana Belashova: Akrestsina is a manmade hell

    August 16, 2020
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    Independent media advocate and journalist tell of challenges covering Belarus’s upcoming elections and coronavirus

    July 03, 2020
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    Amnesty International: Bloggers and activists arrested in purge ahead of the presidential election must be released

    June 30, 2020
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    RSF calls for EU pressure after wave of arrests of journalists in Belarus

    June 24, 2020
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    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
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    Journalist Siarhei Satsuk asked to publish this text in case of his arrest

    March 30, 2020
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    Tatsiana Tkachova: If I stop loving the process, stop loving the way the cherries bloom, then it’s time to die

    Tatsiana Tkachova, World Press Photo nominee in the "portrait" category shares emotions with BAJ.BY, and tells what she finds really important and how to learn photography.
    March 02, 2020
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    After the parliamentary elections: political and media freedom in Belarus

    December 03, 2019
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