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We wel­come the release by the Belaru­sian author­i­ties of peo­ple per­se­cut­ed on polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed grounds, includ­ing releas­es secured through the efforts of the Unit­ed States and oth­er coun­tries. Since the begin­ning of the mass releas­es known to us on 3 July 2024, approx­i­mate­ly 900 peo­ple have been released.

A meet­ing between the lead­er­ship of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ) and Sergiy Tomilenko, pres­i­dent of the Nation­al Union of Jour­nal­ists of Ukraine (NUJU), was held at the BAJ office.

Sev­er­al Belaru­sian politi­cians and pub­lic fig­ures have recent­ly made harsh remarks about Belaru­sian inde­pen­dent media and put for­ward pro­pos­als that would effec­tive­ly bring them under con­trol.

On Sep­tem­ber 16, 2026, 25 Belaru­sian polit­i­cal pris­on­ers were released and tak­en from Belarus to Lithua­nia. BAJ col­lect­ed the first pho­tos and first words from col­leagues who had been behind bars until today.

Sev­er­al jour­nal­ists are among the 25 polit­i­cal pris­on­ers released in Belarus on Sep­tem­ber 16 fol­low­ing talks between John Coale and the Belaru­sian author­i­ties.

The tra­di­tion­al fall soc­cer tour­na­ment for jour­nal­ists in Druskininkai opened with a minute of silence in mem­o­ry of Miki­ta Melka­zio­rau, a promi­nent jour­nal­ist and cap­tain of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists’ soc­cer team.

Mass media in Belarus in April – June 2026. Review. Down­load PDF.

BAJ Board Deci­sion of August 25, 2026 On August 25, 2026, the BAJ Board held a meet­ing to review the imple­men­ta­tion of its Decem­ber 23, 2025, deci­sion in the case involv­ing Barys Haret­s­ki, as well as a draft of BAJ’s Gen­der Pol­i­cy.

Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists once again gath­ered near Vil­nius for the Points of Con­nec­tion Media Camp, reviv­ing a long-stand­ing tra­di­tion of infor­mal gath­er­ings orga­nized by mem­bers of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists. For a com­mu­ni­ty forced into exile, the gath­er­ing was an oppor­tu­ni­ty not only to step away from the dai­ly rou­tine, but also to show gen­uine […]

Around 30 Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists gath­ered near Vil­nius for the Points of Con­nec­tion Media Camp, where they not only dis­cussed press­ing issues and gained new skills, but also remem­bered col­leagues who remain behind bars.

On August 22, he was already back in Mahilou after spend­ing more than two and a half years behind bars. Hlushk­ou’s health dete­ri­o­rat­ed sig­nif­i­cant­ly dur­ing his impris­on­ment, and he is now receiv­ing treat­ment in a hos­pi­tal.

A warn­ing is cir­cu­lat­ing in the Belaru­sian infor­ma­tion space about a sus­pi­cious account whose author presents him­self as a BBC jour­nal­ist, though his con­nec­tion to the British broad­cast­er has not been con­firmed.

This occurred over the past three and a half months — after April 2026, though the exact dates are unknown.

Zmitser Salauy­ou, who left his home­land due to polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion for his pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ties, learned of the Belaru­sian author­i­ties’ request from the Pol­ish prosecutor’s office.

Six years on from the fraud­u­lent Belaru­sian elec­tions of 9 August 2020, the crack­down on press free­dom in Belarus has inten­si­fied, with 21 jour­nal­ists cur­rent­ly impris­oned and those in exile fac­ing intim­i­da­tion. The Inter­na­tion­al and Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tions of Jour­nal­ists (IFJ-EFJ) joins their affil­i­ate, the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ), in call­ing for an end to the crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of jour­nal­ists, […]