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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.

On Raman Bandarenka’s death anniver­sary, the Ger­man Embassy in Min­sk issued a joint state­ment with sev­er­al diplo­mat­ic mis­sions.

In ear­ly Novem­ber, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Glob­al Affairs Cana­da and Jour­nal­ists for Human Rights, togeth­er with inde­pen­dent Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists in exile, gath­ered in front of the Eston­ian For­eign Min­istry to once again remind the world of the impris­oned Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists.

The jour­nal­ist died as a result of a seri­ous liv­er dis­ease.

The Media Free­dom Coali­tion com­mem­o­rates the 10th anniver­sary of the Inter­na­tion­al Day to End Impuni­ty for Crimes against Jour­nal­ists to high­light the indis­pens­able role of jour­nal­ists and media work­ers report­ing from cri­sis- and con­flict-zones in uncov­er­ing the most undoc­u­ment­ed affairs of our time, and to stress the dan­gers they face due to their ded­i­ca­tion.