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OSCE PA human rights leaders raise alarms over new legislation on mass events and media in Belarus
June 04, 2021
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Sports journalists Ivulin, Pisarenka arrested in Minsk
Minsk, 3 June. Sports journalists Aliaksandr Ivulin and Jaraslaŭ Pisarenka were arrested in Minsk on Thursday, according to media reports.
June 04, 2021
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Popular TV personality Dzianis Dudzinski and his wife questioned by financial police
Minsk, 3 June. Popular TV host, actor and singer Dzianis Dudzinski and his wife, Kaciaryna Rajeckaja, were questioned by officers of the State Control Committee’s Department for Financial Investigations on Wednesday.
June 03, 2021
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Medicines not given to jailed Polish activist Andrzej Poczobut after alleged refusal to leave country
Andrzej Poczobut, a political prisoner and member of the Union of Poles in Belarus, is reportedly being deprived of necessary medicines behind bars.
June 03, 2021
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OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urges immediate and unconditional release of all detained journalists in Belarus
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, urged today the public authorities in Belarus to free all journalists and other media workers who have been sentenced, arrested or detained in the country. Most of these journalists were apprehended for their reporting on public events and other political developments in the country, reports OSCE.
June 02, 2021
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Tribuna journo Dzmitry Ruto, Hrodna.life editor Iryna Novik detained
On Tuesday morning, Belsat got information about more cases of apprehending Belarusian media workers.
June 02, 2021
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Narodnaya Volya journalist jailed for 30 days
On May 28 police detained Hlafira Zhuk, a journalist from Minsk. Next evening, she was found in the Maskouski district police department, charged with violation of an Administrative Code. Later the journalist was transferred to Akrestsina detention center.
On May 31 Maskouski district court of Minsk sentenced Ms Zhuk to 30 days of jail.
May 31, 2021
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Hrodna.life editor released before trial
Alyaksei Shota had his laptop, phone, three old hard drives, and a WRW umbrella taken away.
May 31, 2021
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Journalist Lyubou Kaspyarovich released from jail
TUT.BY journalist Lyubou Kaspyarovich was released on Saturday, 29 May. According to her colleagues, the girl spent 15 days in the remand prison on Akrestsin Street but still was in a good mood.
May 31, 2021
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Charges pressed against Sophia Sapega who had been detained with Pratasevich
Sofia Sapega has been charged under Article 130 part 3 of the Criminal Code - "incitement of racial, ethnic, religious or other social hatred or discord."
She is facing up to 12 years in prison.
May 27, 2021
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Pratasevich’s lawyer files complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office demanding to see him
lawyer Inessa Alenskaya says she has no access to her client and insists on an urgent medical examination of Raman Pratasevich.
May 27, 2021
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Belsat TV journalist Katsyaryna Andreyeva transferred to penal colony in Homiel
A few days ago, journalist Ihar Ilyash, the husband of our imprisoned collegue Katsyaryna Andreyeva, was informed that his wife was transferred to the penal colony in Homiel, where she would serve the term.
May 27, 2021
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Lukashenko signs mass media law amendments into law
Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed a law that amends the legislation on mass media, BelTA has learned.
May 27, 2021
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Report: Women journalists are frontline warriors at the protests and in prisons in Belarus
Amidst all these censorship and harassment tactics the women journalists are risking their lives when they cover the protests and report on the state’s atrocities from the frontlines. Many women journalists have been detained and forced to stay silent. In detentions, they suffer assaults at the hands of authorities. Some of the excruciating details of the tortures in these detention centers were also exposed by the women journalists.
May 26, 2021
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TUT.BY employees are political prisoners. Joint statement by Belarusian human rights organizations
May 26, 2021
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