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Jour­nal­ist Denis Ivashin has been released from a pun­ish­ment cell at Prison No 8 in Žodz­i­na, Min­sk region, after spend­ing 15 days there, said a Telegram chan­nel, mon­i­tor­ing his per­se­cu­tion.

PEN Inter­na­tion­al, a lit­er­ary and free­dom of expres­sion asso­ci­a­tion, has called for the imme­di­ate release of Pol­ish-Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist Andrzej Poc­zobut (Andrej Pačobut).

Diplo­mats from the EU gath­ered out­side the Min­sk City Court today in a show of sol­i­dar­i­ty with jour­nal­ist Ihar Iljaš cur­rent­ly on tri­al on charges of sup­port­ing extrem­ism and dis­cred­it­ing Belarus.

Jour­nal­ists, news­rooms, press free­dom advo­cates, human rights defend­ers, and jour­nal­ists’ orga­ni­za­tions call for Mzia Ama­glo­beli’s release.

On the evening of Feb­ru­ary 18, the Repub­li­can List of Extrem­ist Mate­ri­als was updat­ed on the web­site of the Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion.

On Feb­ru­ary 12, 2025, three indi­vid­u­als were released from prison in Belarus: jour­nal­ist Andrei Kuznechyk, who had been sen­tenced to six years, activist Ale­na Maushuk, and a U.S. cit­i­zen whose name has not yet been dis­closed. This was announced by the leader of the Belaru­sian pro-democ­ra­cy forces, Svi­at­lana Tsikhanouskaya.

Accord­ing to friends and acquain­tances, Aleh Supruniuk stopped answer­ing phone calls after Jan­u­ary 22. He is also not active on social media.

The Jus­tice for Jour­nal­ists Foun­da­tion and the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists have pub­lished a joint report “Attacks on Media Work­ers in Belarus in 2023–2024.”

Dur­ing the Koś­ciuszko Forum in Gdańsk, the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Euro­pean Endow­ment for Democ­ra­cy (EED), Jerzy Pomi­anows­ki, high­light­ed the effi­cien­cy of Belaru­sian media in exile. He also empha­sized that “fatigue with Belarus” is not a wide­spread phe­nom­e­non.

SITUATION IN BELARUS MASS MEDIA FIELD: SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2024. REVIEW. Down­load PDF.

Inde­pen­dent orga­ni­za­tions and media world­wide have faced sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges due to Pres­i­dent Trump’s announced freeze on U.S. for­eign aid for thou­sands of projects.  Despite these chal­lenges, the largest inde­pen­dent asso­ci­a­tion of Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists (now oper­at­ing in exile) remains com­mit­ted to sus­tain­ing free jour­nal­ism in Belarus, ensur­ing that the domes­tic audi­ence is not dom­i­nat­ed by local […]

The U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment (USAID), one of the largest offi­cial aid agen­cies in the world, has been instruct­ed to stop projects fol­low­ing a 90-day for­eign aid freeze imposed by Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio. The mea­sure affects dozens of inde­pen­dent media out­lets in more than 30 coun­tries, deprived of U.S. sup­port pro­grams to strength­en […]

Barys Haret­s­ki, the Deputy Chair­man of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ), has been placed on an Russ­ian-Belaru­sian inter­state want­ed list, as noticed by Medi­a­zona.

The fol­low­ing jour­nal­ists are in jail at the moment. Kat­siary­na Andree­va, Ihar Losik, Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau, Dzia­n­is Ivashyn, Andrej Pachobut (Andrzej Poc­zobut), Mary­na Zolata­va,  Liud­mi­la Chek­ina,  Valer­i­ja Kast­si­u­go­va,  Dzmit­ryi Navazhy­lau,  Iry­na Slau­nika­va Siarhei Sat­suk,  Kanstantsin Zalatykh,  Pavel Mazhei­ka,  Yauhen Merkis,  Dzmit­ry Sem­chanka,  Andrei Famin,  Larysa Shchyrako­va,  Pavel Pad­abed, Viachaslau Laza­rau, Ali­ak­san­dr Mant­se­vich, Ales Sabaleus­ki, Ali­ak­san­dr Ihnat­siuk Yauhen […]

After five years of inflict­ing an unprece­dent­ed crack­down on the press, Alexan­der Lukashenko is set to run for a sev­enth pres­i­den­tial term on Sun­day, 26 Jan­u­ary. Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF) has filed a com­plaint with the Inter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) against the Belaru­sian leader for crimes against human­i­ty, as jour­nal­ists con­tin­ue to be over­whelm­ing­ly tar­get­ed […]