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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.
ANDREI BASTUNETS: Today, the law does not defend us
Cameraman Uladzimir Luniou: ‘I didn’t belive we would get out of there alive’
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.
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.
“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.
Journalist Ivan Murauyou talks about his three days in detention
Journalist Tatsiana Belashova: Akrestsina is a manmade hell
Independent media advocate and journalist tell of challenges covering Belarus’s upcoming elections and coronavirus
Amnesty International: Bloggers and activists arrested in purge ahead of the presidential election must be released
RSF calls for EU pressure after wave of arrests of journalists in Belarus
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.
Journalist Siarhei Satsuk asked to publish this text in case of his arrest
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.
After the parliamentary elections: political and media freedom in Belarus
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