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Currently there are 2 journalists in custody
On Friday, 14 August, during a meeting with the Ministry of Information BAJ handed over the lists of detained journalists and insisted on their release. Recently, the majority of the detained and arrested journalists were released. However, the sentences that had been pronounced to them were not canceled, and they might be sent back to jail to serve their jail terms any time.
August 17, 2020
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Belsat journalist in hospital after three days at Akrestsina. She was beaten by a wardress
Now the journalist is looking for cellmates who may also have suffered from the wardress who beat the girls.
August 16, 2020
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Journalist Ivan Murauyou talks about his three days in detention
Today at 6.37 a.m. Ivan had tears of joy in his eyes, walking into his apartment building 21 Bedy Street after his release from Akrestsina detention center.
August 16, 2020
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Journalist Tatsiana Belashova: Akrestsina is a manmade hell
In the evening of May 10, Alena Shcharbinskaya, I, and another dozen people were loaded into a police van near Centralny police department, where we searched for information about our detained family members. Of course, the police did not explain, why they detained us.
August 16, 2020
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JOINT STATEMENT BY MEP Robert BIEDROŃ and MEP Petras AUŠTREVIČIUSOn
14 August, the Belarusian regime denied an entrance to Belarus for two Members of European Parliament:Robert BiedrońMEP (Poland, S&D), chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Belarus and Petras Auštrevičius MEP (Lithuania, Renew), the European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Belarus.
August 14, 2020
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Repression targets journalists in Belarus: international community must respond
August 13, 2020
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IFJ General Secretary, Anthony Bellanger called Belarusian authorities stop crackdown media
August 13, 2020
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Two journalists are on hunger strike against illegal detention in Mahiliou prison
Uladzimir Laptsevich is on hunger strike for the 6th day. Zmitser Salauyou — for the 4th day. Leninski district court of Mahiliou found them guilty of disobeying police demands.
August 13, 2020
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Detentions of journalists in Belarus, August 12
On August 12, Belarusians continued to protest against the rigged election results. There was less police brutality on the streets, however, some journalists were detained.
August 13, 2020
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Journalists detained and beaten intentionally Stop the violence! LIST
Media representatives were attacked and detained in Minsk and other cities of Belarus on Tuesday, August 11.
The Belarusian Association of Journalists calls on the authorities to stop the violence.
August 12, 2020
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BAJ protests against gross violations of journalists’ and media rights during and after the presidential elections
In Belarus, the 2020 presidential election campaign has demonstrated unprecedented pressure on journalists.
August 12, 2020
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Journalist was wounded by a rubber bullet in Minsk
In Minsk, journalists were shot at with traumatic weapons on Kalvariyskaya Street . At that time there was a spontaneous protest action against the official election results.
Natalya Lubnevskaya, a journalist of Nasha Niva, was wounded in the leg by a rubber bullet.
August 10, 2020
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Journalists of the Russian TV channel “Dozhd” Vladimir Romensky, Vasily Poklonsky and cameraman Nikolai Antipov were brutally detained in Minsk
Telegram channel Nexta Live publishes a video of the detention of journalists. The video shows how people in civilian clothes and masks put them on the road and then take them away in an unknown way .
August 09, 2020
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Three Current Time Journalists Covering Presidential Election Detained In Belarus. They deported night flight to Odessa
Two days ahead of Belarus’ presidential election, Belarusian police in Minsk on August 7 detained three full-time employees of Current Time for unclear reasons. They were deported by a night flight to Odessa.
August 07, 2020
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Blogger Andrei Pavuk gets 15 days of jail
In Aktsiabrski, Homel region, the police detained a local blogger and BAJ member Andrei Pavuk. He is charged with failure to obey the police. He was detained on August 7, his wife Volha reported.
In the evening BAJ learned that Andrei had been sentenced to 15 days of arrest.
August 07, 2020
60
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