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    From radio to regional papers: People with security backgrounds increasingly head Homel media outlets

    Han­na Plakhat­niuk, a jour­nal­ist and pro­pa­gan­dist known for her close ties to secu­ri­ty agen­cies, has been appoint­ed head of Homel City Radio. Her appoint­ment was approved by the head of the region­al exec­u­tive com­mit­tee.
    February 17, 2026
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    Journalist Pavel Dabravolski’s case sent to court

    Polit­i­cal pris­on­er and jour­nal­ist Pavel Dabravol­s­ki is charged with “high trea­son”. He faces up to 15 years impris­on­ment.
    February 03, 2026
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    Margaret Atwood shows support for Andrei Aliaksandrau on his birthday (Video)

    In sol­i­dar­i­ty with impris­oned jour­nal­ist Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau, writer Mar­garet Atwood, Thurston Moore of Son­ic Youth, Nadya of Pussy Riot, and Sir Trevor Phillips joined togeth­er to read a poem Andrei wrote in July 2021 while in a pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter.
    January 29, 2026
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    New criminal case opened against blogger Mikola Dziadok

    He learned about this from his par­ents, who were sum­moned for inter­ro­ga­tion. How­ev­er, Miko­la does not know the exact offense he is charged with.
    January 29, 2026
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    InformNapalm proposes exchange of suspected Belarus spy for imprisoned journalist Dzianis Ivashyn

    The inter­na­tion­al vol­un­teer com­mu­ni­ty Inform­Na­palm has pub­licly appealed to Ukraine’s Main Direc­torate of Intel­li­gence to con­sid­er exchang­ing Ina Kar­dash — a jour­nal­ist detained in Kyiv on sus­pi­cion of spy­ing for the Belaru­sian KGB since 2015 — for jour­nal­ist Dzia­n­is Ivashyn, head of InformNapalm.org’s Belaru­sian edi­to­r­i­al office
    January 28, 2026
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    Imprisoned journalist Vatslau Areshka goes nearly blind in detention

    Polit­i­cal pris­on­er Vat­slau Aresh­ka marked his fourth birth­day behind bars on Jan­u­ary 18, turn­ing 71. Human rights defend­ers have includ­ed him on the list of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers with extreme­ly vul­ner­a­ble health con­di­tions — Aresh­ka has lost almost all of his vision while impris­oned.
    January 23, 2026
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    BAJ updates its logo

    The new visu­al iden­ti­ty reflects the con­ti­nu­ity of BAJ’s val­ues — defend­ing free­dom of speech, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and sol­i­dar­i­ty with­in the jour­nal­ist com­mu­ni­ty — while meet­ing con­tem­po­rary require­ments for brand­ing and dig­i­tal for­mats.
    January 21, 2026
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    Journalist Aleh Supruniuk reported sent to correctional facility, faces problems due to disability

    Jour­nal­ist Aleh Supruniuk, con­vict­ed for his pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ties, has been sent to serve his sen­tence at Mahilou Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty No. 15. For­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er Ali­ak­san­dr Fiadu­ta, who was released from that same facil­i­ty and deport­ed from Belarus in Decem­ber of last year, shared details of his encoun­ters with Aleh Supruniuk.
    January 20, 2026
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    Belarusian propagandists to be trained in combating fake news with EU funds

    Belaru­sian state-run media employ­ees are being invit­ed to the cap­i­tal of Bul­gar­ia for an event titled “Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and the Fight Against Fake News.” The dis­cus­sion is fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union.
    January 14, 2026
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    Dzianis Ivashyn describes spending Christmas behind bars

    He made kutya from oat­meal and drew a Christ­mas tree.
    January 09, 2026
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    Journalists in Exile, Security Threats, and Solidarity: Vilnius Forum Honors Belarusian Editor

    The annu­al Forum of Baltic and Per­se­cut­ed Jour­nal­ists opened on Decem­ber 18 at Lithuania’s par­lia­ment vis­i­tors’ cen­ter, focus­ing on region­al secu­ri­ty chal­lenges and cross-bor­der repres­sion, while the Free­dom Hope Award was pre­sent­ed to Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist and for­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er Ali­ak­san­dr Mant­se­vich.
    December 23, 2025
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    RSF uncovers new spyware from Belarus

    Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF)’s Dig­i­tal Secu­ri­ty Lab (DSL), work­ing with the East­ern Euro­pean organ­i­sa­tion RESIDENT.NGO, has uncov­ered a pre­vi­ous­ly unknown spy­ware tool used by the State Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee (KGB) of Belarus to tar­get, among oth­ers, jour­nal­ists and media work­ers. RSF assess­es that this expo­sure is a seri­ous set­back for the KGB’s oper­a­tions, not least because […]
    December 17, 2025
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    Andrzej Poczobut honored with the Sakharov Prize at European Parliament

    A for­mal cer­e­mo­ny hon­or­ing the recip­i­ents of the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Free­dom of Thought took place on Decem­ber 16 in Stras­bourg dur­ing a ple­nary ses­sion of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment. This year’s award was grant­ed to Belaru­sian polit­i­cal pris­on­er and jour­nal­ist Andrzej Poc­zobut and Geor­gian jour­nal­ist Mzia Ama­glo­beli.
    December 17, 2025
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    Maryna Zolatava named among released prisoners

    Accord­ing to inde­pen­dent media, Mary­na Zolata­va, edi­tor-in-chief of the Belaru­sian news media out­let TUT.BY, is on the list of pris­on­ers released fol­low­ing talks between an Amer­i­can del­e­ga­tion led by U.S. pres­i­den­tial envoy John Coale and offi­cial Min­sk.
    December 13, 2025
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    Belarus designates Radio Plato project as an “extremist formation”

    Belaru­sian author­i­ties have added the inde­pen­dent inter­net radio project Radio Pla­to to the nation­al reg­istry of orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als alleged­ly involved in “extrem­ist activ­i­ty.”
    December 01, 2025
    Abroad
    Abroad

    Georgia: Exiled Belarusian journalist and Armenian journalist denied entry without explanation

    On 15 Sep­tem­ber, Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist Andrei Mialesh­ka was denied entry to Geor­gia, where he has lived for the past three years after fac­ing polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion in Belarus. On 17 Sep­tem­ber, Armen­ian jour­nal­ist Arsen Kharatyan, edi­tor-in-chief of an inde­pen­dent non-prof­it bilin­gual Geor­gian-Arme­nia media plat­form Aliq Media based in Tbil­isi, was also denied entry to Geor­gia. The Inter­na­tion­al […]
    September 18, 2024
    Abroad

    BAJ expresses condolences on the untimely death of Reporters Without Borders Secretary General

    It is with great sad­ness that we announce the pass­ing of Christophe Deloire, Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tion Reporters With­out Bor­ders. Deloire, who was 53 years old, died in Paris after a bat­tle with can­cer.
    June 11, 2024
    Abroad

    Iryna Leushyna’s words quoted at Echoing the Voices of Women action in Malmö

    At the begin­ning of March, the Malmö Art Muse­um com­mem­o­rat­ed impris­oned female jour­nal­ists from Belarus as part of the Echo­ing the Voic­es of Women action. With the sup­port of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists, Malmö PEN told the sto­ry of nine media women who are cur­rent­ly impris­oned and also read quotes from the final state­ment […]
    March 15, 2024
    Accents
    Accents

    Two-thirds of journalists in exile change their profession

    Work in exile does not mean a hap­py end  –  it makes inequal­i­ties deep­er. Fur­ther­more, two-thirds of jour­nal­ists in exile leave the pro­fes­sion, while work­ing in edi­to­r­i­al offices tend to be more sus­tain­able. Researcher and Pro­fes­sor at Salzburg Uni­ver­si­ty, Hanan Badr, dis­cuss­es the col­lec­tive expe­ri­ence of jour­nal­ists in exile.
    November 25, 2025
    Accents

    Aleh Hruzdzilovich: I wrote about abuse. I went through prison. And I proved that freedom cannot be crushed

    This inter­view is part of the col­lec­tion “Voice of the Free­dom Gen­er­a­tion”, a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny to the cre­ative and civic pres­ence of those who have not lost their voice even in exile.
    November 14, 2025
    Accents

    Henadz Veratsinski: “If a photograph captures a moment, then the photographer is not its shadow — but its witness in history”

    This inter­view is part of the col­lec­tion “Voice of the Free­dom Gen­er­a­tion”, a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny to the cre­ative and civic pres­ence of those who have not lost their voice even in exile.
    November 14, 2025
    Accents

    Aliaksandr Klaskouski: Journalism is not just a craft. It’s a trial by both pressure and freedom

    This inter­view is part of the col­lec­tion “Voice of the Free­dom Gen­er­a­tion”, a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny to the cre­ative and civic pres­ence of those who have not lost their voice even in exile.
    November 13, 2025
    Accents

    Valer Karbalevich: “Our history is like a mirror; it reflects both defeat and chance”

    This inter­view is part of the col­lec­tion “Voice of the Free­dom Gen­er­a­tion”, a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny to the cre­ative and civic pres­ence of those who have not lost their voice even in exile.
    November 10, 2025
    Accents

    Liubou Luniova: “A government afraid of freedom instinctively reaches for the baton”

    This inter­view is part of the col­lec­tion “Voice of the Free­dom Gen­er­a­tion”, a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny to the cre­ative and civic pres­ence of those who have not lost their voice even in exile.
    November 05, 2025
    Accents

    Viktar Marchuk: “Digital technology can replace paper, but nothing can replace trust.”

    This inter­view is part of the col­lec­tion “Voice of the Free­dom Gen­er­a­tion”, a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny to the cre­ative and civic pres­ence of those who have not lost their voice even in exile.
    November 03, 2025
    Accents

    Belarusian journalists in Paris: Meetings, exchange, and a solidarity action

    At the end of Octo­ber, a del­e­ga­tion of Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists vis­it­ed Paris. As part of the work­ing trip, they met with edi­to­r­i­al teams of lead­ing French media out­lets and took part in sol­i­dar­i­ty actions in sup­port of impris­oned jour­nal­ists cur­rent­ly behind bars in Belarus.
    October 30, 2025
    Accents

    Maksim Zhbankou: Life, just life — traumatically beautiful

    This inter­view is part of the col­lec­tion “Voice of the Free­dom Gen­er­a­tion”, a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny to the cre­ative and civic pres­ence of those who have not lost their voice even in exile.
    October 29, 2025
    Accents

    “Without us, you wouldn’t know…”: Inside the secrets Belarus wanted buried, until reporters exposed them

    Since August 2020, more than 400 jour­nal­ists have left Belarus due to per­se­cu­tion. Around 30 inde­pen­dent out­lets have relo­cat­ed abroad. They con­tin­ue work­ing now in some of the harsh­est con­di­tions in Europe.
    September 23, 2025
    Accents

    Conference on the future of Belarusian journalism opens in Vilnius

    On Sep­tem­ber 16, the Lithuan­ian cap­i­tal host­ed the open­ing of the con­fer­ence “Belaru­sian Jour­nal­ism: Where Tomor­row Begins.”  This year, the gath­er­ing car­ries spe­cial mean­ing: BAJ is cel­e­brat­ing the 30th anniver­sary of its found­ing.
    September 16, 2025
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    Latvian parliamentarian warns against dropping Belarusian media content

    The pos­si­ble clo­sure of the Belaru­sian divi­sion of the LSM+ Lat­vian media out­let has sparked wide­spread con­cern not only among the Belaru­sian dias­po­ra in Latvia. BAJ looked into the issue and spoke with Lat­vian MP Leila Rasi­ma, as well as with com­mu­ni­ty rep­re­sen­ta­tives and the Unit­ed Tran­si­tion­al Cab­i­net of Belarus.
    August 18, 2025
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    Five years of lawlessness: How Belarus’s media was silenced — and fought back

    Inde­pen­dent media can be destroyed, jour­nal­ists can be impris­oned — but they can­not be forced into silence. The start­ing point of the newest Belaru­sian his­to­ry was August 9, 2020 — the day of vot­ing in a pres­i­den­tial elec­tion that nev­er tru­ly hap­pened. That day marked the begin­ning of a total purge of Belarus’s demo­c­ra­t­ic soci­ety.
    August 12, 2025
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    BAJ exhibition on imprisoned journalists held at “New Belarus” conference

    The project “Jour­nal­ists: The Silent Mode” is a visu­al form of resis­tance to the qui­et era­sure of jour­nal­ists from pub­lic space, the pro­fes­sion, and life — a process that the Belaru­sian author­i­ties have been delib­er­ate­ly car­ry­ing out for the past five years. Belaruss­ian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists spoke with vis­i­tors to the exhi­bi­tion at the con­fer­ence […]
    August 11, 2025
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    Polish lawyer denied access to case of journalist Aliaksandr Burakou, who is banned from entering the Schengen Area

    Poland was the coun­try that ini­ti­at­ed the journalist’s ban, and for sev­er­al years Ali­ak­san­dr Burak­ou has been try­ing to uncov­er the spe­cif­ic alle­ga­tions that result­ed in his pro­hi­bi­tion from enter­ing mul­ti­ple Schen­gen Agree­ment mem­ber states.
    August 06, 2025
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