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Urgent Motion. On the need to release all journalists from prison in Belarus

The Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (EFJ), meet­ing in Budapest, Hun­gary, on 2–3 June, 2025, notes that on May 28 a new  wave of per­se­cu­tion tar­get­ed the few remain­ing pri­vate media out­lets still oper­at­ing in Belaru­sian regions. Sev­er­al media out­lets, includ­ing Vech­erny Bobruisk, babruisk.info, Vol­na­je Hly­boka­je (and its web­site vglybokaye.by), and UzHo­rak, […]

June 09, 2025

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Brest journalist to stand trial for alleged collaboration with “extremist entity”

The Prosecutor’s Office of the Brest Region has announced that it has referred a crim­i­nal case to court against a Brest res­i­dent under Part 3 of Arti­cle 361–1 of the Crim­i­nal Code (par­tic­i­pa­tion in an extrem­ist enti­ty).

June 04, 2025

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A meeting with Ksenia Lutskina will take place in Leipzig

On June 12 in Leipzig, will be a meet­ing with Kseniya Lut­ski­na — a Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist who spent 4 years behind bars for cov­er­ing protests and expos­ing state pro­pa­gan­da. Arrest­ed sim­ply for doing her job, she is now free and will share her sto­ry first­hand.

June 04, 2025

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Belarus sentences exiled blogger Anton Matolka to 20 years in prison in absentia

A Belaru­sian court has sen­tenced promi­nent exiled blog­ger Anton Matol­ka to 20 years in prison and a fine of approx­i­mate­ly €24,820 in absen­tia. The ver­dict was issued by the Hrod­na Region­al Court and announced by the Pros­e­cu­tor General’s Office on June 3. The deci­sion is not yet final and may be appealed.

June 03, 2025

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Security forces raid regional media offices and accuse them of collaborating with Germany

On May 28, the state-owned TV chan­nel ANT aired a seg­ment on the pro­gram “To Be Updat­ed,” show­ing yet anoth­er wave of per­se­cu­tion against the few remain­ing pri­vate media out­lets still oper­at­ing in Belaru­sian regions.

May 29, 2025

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Joint Stakeholder Submission: Belarus in the 50th Session of the UPR Working Group

Sub­mit­ted by the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (main sub­mit­ting orga­ni­za­tion) and Free Press Unlim­it­ed. Down­load PDF.

May 26, 2025

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Belarusian woman asks for help with treatment of 12-year-old daughter

My daugh­ter Masha and I fled Belarus on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2020, when she was only 7 years old. Her new life began in Ukraine. There were friends, school, lan­guage, habits — she became attached to this coun­try with all her heart. When a full-scale war began in 2022, we stayed, we did not leave. On the […]

May 23, 2025

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The time for release is now

We, the under­signed, are con­cerned that, amid the cur­rent glob­al sit­u­a­tion, the plight of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers in Belarus may slip out of the pub­lic eye. Mean­while, the cat­a­stroph­ic sit­u­a­tion of approx­i­mate­ly 1,200 polit­i­cal pris­on­ers requires imme­di­ate inter­ven­tion. 

May 21, 2025

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Roskomnadzor tries to block Novy Chas website, outlet responds with new mirror

At the end of April, a mir­ror site of the inde­pen­dent Belaru­sian news out­let Novy Chas, which had bypassed cen­sor­ship in Belarus for a year, became inac­ces­si­ble from Belarus and Rus­sia. On May 1, Ama­zon, which hosts the mir­ror, noti­fied the out­let of a com­plaint from Roskom­nad­zor — Rus­si­a’s media and com­mu­ni­ca­tions watch­dog — claim­ing […]

May 20, 2025

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Belarus opens criminal cases against more than 60 journalists in exile

Doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er Maryia Bulavinskaya’s love of his­to­ry led her to buy a tra­di­tion­al wood home in the Belaru­sian vil­lage of Rogi-Ilet­sky in 2019. Her plans to ren­o­vate and even­tu­al­ly live in the house were put on hold in 2020 when she fled the coun­try out of fear of being detained for her cov­er­age of anti-gov­ern­ment protests. Now, she […]

May 17, 2025

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Monitoring pro-Russian propaganda in Belarusian state-owned television media

The pri­ma­ry objec­tive of the mon­i­tor­ing is to ascer­tain and doc­u­ment the occur­rence, quan­ti­ty, con­tent and form of pro-Russ­ian (includ­ing anti-West­ern and anti-Ukrain­ian) pro­pa­gan­da in the lead­ing Belaru­sian state-owned tele­vi­sion media, as well as its car­ri­ers and dis­sem­i­na­tors. Down­load PDF BRIEF CONCLUSIONS: As was the case in the pre­vi­ous year, Russ­ian top­ics con­sti­tut­ed a small­er […]

May 13, 2025

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BAJ receives Günter Wallraff Award

The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists has been hon­ored for its long­stand­ing work defend­ing jour­nal­ists and free­dom of speech.

May 12, 2025

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E‑newsletter: MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS No.1 (79) 2025

Sit­u­a­tion in Belarus mass media field: jan­u­ary-march 2025. Review. Down­load PDF.

May 08, 2025

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“Press freedom and today’s Belarus are incompatible”: Forum in Vilnius highlights imprisoned Belarusian journalists

The forum “Stay­ing secure in unse­cure times: Strate­gies for jour­nal­ists and the media” opened in Vil­nius with a sol­i­dar­i­ty action for impris­oned Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists.

May 03, 2025

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Accents

“Quiet and courageous heroes, they hold a special place in my heart”: Politicians and media professionals honor imprisoned journalists

More than 40 jour­nal­ists remain impris­oned in Belarus, but oth­ers can talk for them – their sym­bol­ic god­par­ents, as well as oth­er pub­lic per­sons and media pro­fes­sion­als. On World Press Free­dom Day, May 3, the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists called on sym­bol­ic god­par­ents of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, pub­lic fig­ures, and media pro­fes­sion­als to high­light the sit­u­a­tion […]

May 03, 2025

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