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In ear­ly Decem­ber, the Brest branch of Vias­na report­ed that numer­ous employ­ees and jour­nal­ists of the recent­ly defunct pri­vate news­pa­per Intex-Press were appre­hend­ed in Baranavichy.

Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF) annu­al sur­vey released: In 2024, jour­nal­ism pays a dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly high human price in con­flicts and repres­sive regimes.  Down­load PDF.

Ihar Karnei, a jour­nal­ist sen­tenced to three years in prison, is cur­rent­ly serv­ing his sen­tence at Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty No. 17 in Shk­lou. He is held in the Secure Hous­ing Unit most of the time. Karnei’s new tri­al is sched­uled for Decem­ber 11. He is accused of per­sis­tent dis­obe­di­ence to the demands of the prison admin­is­tra­tion.

On the morn­ing of Decem­ber 10, the judge of the Min­sk City Court, Vera Halauko­va, sen­tenced jour­nal­ist Vol­ha Radzivon­a­va to four years of impris­on­ment. The defen­dant was charged with four arti­cles of crim­i­nal defama­tion.

The 15-day admin­is­tra­tive deten­tion of Siarhei Chabot­ka, the pro­pri­etor of the Hrod­na news por­tal s13.ru, has con­clud­ed. How­ev­er, he has not been released, accord­ing to a recent report from Hrodna.life.

She has com­plet­ed her sen­tence. Accord­ing to Vias­na HRC, the jour­nal­ist was released on Decem­ber 7, 2024.

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.