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Next year marks a mile­stone for the BAJ, which cel­e­brates its anniver­sary in exile. “I tru­ly believe in the mis­sion of our orga­ni­za­tion. This is what keeps me going,” says BAJ chair­man Andrei Bas­tunets. In the inter­view, he talks about how the orga­ni­za­tion has grown, shares his thoughts on the Belaru­sian media sec­tor, dis­cuss­es jour­nal­is­tic […]

The tri­al of for­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er and Homel-based video­g­ra­ph­er Andrei Tolchyn was report­ed by the Homel Vias­na chap­ter.

In the report «Sus­tain­ing inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ism: Civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions’ sup­port for Belaru­sian and Russ­ian exiled media», pro­duced by The Fix for The Thom­son Reuters Foun­da­tion, comes at a piv­otal moment as the ecosys­tem for exiled inde­pen­dent media in Cen­tral and East­ern Europe con­tin­ues to adapt and devel­op in response to severe polit­i­cal repres­sion in Belarus […]

The founder of the YouTube chan­nel Sery Kot, Dzmit­ry Kazlou, was due to be released on 28 Novem­ber from Babru­jsk prison, where he has been serv­ing a 4.5 year sen­tence. How­ev­er, on 29 Novem­ber he was retried in the Babru­jsk City and Dis­trict Court. Dzmit­ry Kazlou was accused of per­sis­tent dis­obe­di­ence to the demands of […]

Police searched the home of Siarhei Skulavet­s’s 85-year-old grand­moth­er. Skulavets is a for­mer jour­nal­ist at Bel­sat TV. In Sep­tem­ber, the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee had opened a crim­i­nal case against him.

The 67-year-old Belaru­sian pho­tog­ra­ph­er Henadz Ver­atsin­s­ki is in a crit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion in Poland and is ask­ing for help. The man has the means to stay afloat for two months at most.

Media free­dom in Ser­bia is under relent­less attack. Inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ism in par­tic­u­lar is being increas­ing­ly sti­fled by a com­bi­na­tion of smear cam­paigns, sys­tem­at­ic pres­sures aimed at silenc­ing dis­sent­ing voic­es and, most recent­ly, legal intim­i­da­tion by the so-called SLAPP (Strate­gic Lit­i­ga­tion against Pub­lic Par­tic­i­pa­tion) law­suits. Among the media orga­ni­za­tions at the fore­front of this strug­gle is KRIK (Crime and Cor­rup­tion Report­ing Net­work). […]

What help can the BAJ Legal Cen­ter pro­vide? How can con­flicts in the Belaru­sian media sphere be resolved? Why does Belaru­sian jour­nal­ism need new eth­i­cal stan­dards under extreme con­di­tions? We dis­cussed the answers to these ques­tions with Aleh Aheyeu, head of the BAJ Legal Cen­ter.

On Novem­ber 22, 2024, a joint state­ment by Belaru­sian human rights orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing the sit­u­a­tion with jour­nal­ist Ihar Ilyash was pub­lished.

Blog­ger Dzmit­ry Kazlou, author of the YouTube chan­nel Seryi Kot, has been in prison for four and a half years. On Novem­ber 29, he was sched­uled for anoth­er tri­al on charges of “per­sis­tent dis­obe­di­ence to the prison admin­is­tra­tion.”

The award cer­e­mo­ny took place at the annu­al Media Free­dom con­fer­ence orga­nized by the inter­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tion Transat­lantic Lead­er­ship Net­work in Wash­ing­ton. The jour­nal­ist announced it on her Face­book page.

A sol­i­dar­i­ty action was held on the fourth anniver­sary of Kat­siary­na Andreye­va’s impris­on­ment. Poet and trans­la­tor Ale­sia Lose­va read excerpts from the book Belaru­sian Don­bas and poems by the impris­oned jour­nal­ist Kat­siary­na Andreye­va trans­lat­ed into Lat­vian.

The crim­i­nal case hear­ing start­ed in the Min­sk City Court on Novem­ber 16. Vol­ha Radzivon­a­va is charged with four counts of crim­i­nal defama­tion. She faces up to six years of free­dom restric­tion or impris­on­ment. Judge Vera Halauko­va pre­sides over the tri­al.

The sports out­let «Tri­buna» is active­ly expand­ing its net­work of apps and ser­vices – cut­ting-edge not just for Belarus, but for the entire region.Belarusian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists spoke with Tribuna’s direc­tor, Mak­sim Berazin­s­ki, about how mod­ern tech­nolo­gies are being inte­grat­ed into their jour­nal­is­tic and edi­to­r­i­al work.

Word Behind Bars is a video project by the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists. It is a series of ani­mat­ed videos about jour­nal­ists in prison in Belarus.