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The new visu­al iden­ti­ty reflects the con­ti­nu­ity of BAJ’s val­ues — defend­ing free­dom of speech, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and sol­i­dar­i­ty with­in the jour­nal­ist com­mu­ni­ty — while meet­ing con­tem­po­rary require­ments for brand­ing and dig­i­tal for­mats.

Jour­nal­ist Aleh Supruniuk, con­vict­ed for his pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ties, has been sent to serve his sen­tence at Mahilou Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty No. 15. For­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er Ali­ak­san­dr Fiadu­ta, who was released from that same facil­i­ty and deport­ed from Belarus in Decem­ber of last year, shared details of his encoun­ters with Aleh Supruniuk.

Belaru­sian state-run media employ­ees are being invit­ed to the cap­i­tal of Bul­gar­ia for an event titled “Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and the Fight Against Fake News.” The dis­cus­sion is fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union.

He made kutya from oat­meal and drew a Christ­mas tree.

The Belaru­sian Media Sec­tor in Num­bers. 28 media pro­fes­sion­als impris­oned. 34 search­es and inspec­tions of premis­es. 12 deten­tions. 42 media out­lets des­ig­nat­ed as “extrem­ist for­ma­tions”. More than 100 cas­es of in absen­tia pros­e­cu­tion of jour­nal­ists. 26 media out­lets and orga­ni­za­tions joined the Code of Ethics of Belaru­sian Jour­nal­ists and the self-reg­u­la­tion sys­tem. 62 col­leagues com­plet­ed […]

On Decem­ber 23, the BAJ Board dis­cussed the con­clu­sion of an exter­nal expert and made a deci­sion in con­nec­tion with alle­ga­tions against BAJ Deputy Chair Barys Haret­s­ki regard­ing pos­si­ble harass­ment.

The annu­al Forum of Baltic and Per­se­cut­ed Jour­nal­ists opened on Decem­ber 18 at Lithuania’s par­lia­ment vis­i­tors’ cen­ter, focus­ing on region­al secu­ri­ty chal­lenges and cross-bor­der repres­sion, while the Free­dom Hope Award was pre­sent­ed to Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist and for­mer polit­i­cal pris­on­er Ali­ak­san­dr Mant­se­vich.

Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF)’s Dig­i­tal Secu­ri­ty Lab (DSL), work­ing with the East­ern Euro­pean organ­i­sa­tion RESIDENT.NGO, has uncov­ered a pre­vi­ous­ly unknown spy­ware tool used by the State Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee (KGB) of Belarus to tar­get, among oth­ers, jour­nal­ists and media work­ers. RSF assess­es that this expo­sure is a seri­ous set­back for the KGB’s oper­a­tions, not least because […]

A for­mal cer­e­mo­ny hon­or­ing the recip­i­ents of the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Free­dom of Thought took place on Decem­ber 16 in Stras­bourg dur­ing a ple­nary ses­sion of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment. This year’s award was grant­ed to Belaru­sian polit­i­cal pris­on­er and jour­nal­ist Andrzej Poc­zobut and Geor­gian jour­nal­ist Mzia Ama­glo­beli.

The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists wel­comes the release of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers but stress­es that many jour­nal­ists and media work­ers remain unjust­ly impris­oned.

The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ) is launch­ing a new project that ana­lyzes the work of state pro­pa­gan­dists for poten­tial crim­i­nal offens­es.

Sit­u­a­tion in Belarus mass media field: July–September 2025. Review. Down­load PDF.

Belaru­sian author­i­ties have added the inde­pen­dent inter­net radio project Radio Pla­to to the nation­al reg­istry of orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als alleged­ly involved in “extrem­ist activ­i­ty.”

Belaru­sian author­i­ties have opened a crim­i­nal case against exiled jour­nal­ist Iry­na Khalip under an unspec­i­fied “extrem­ism” arti­cle, accord­ing to the jour­nal­ist.

The fol­low­ing jour­nal­ists are in jail at the moment. Kat­siary­na Andree­va, Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau, Dzia­n­is Ivashyn, Andrej Pachobut (Andrzej Poc­zobut), Liud­mi­la Chek­ina,  Valer­i­ja Kast­si­u­go­va,  Dzmit­ryi Navazhy­lau,  Siarhei Sat­suk,  Andrei Famin,  Ales Sabaleus­ki, Ali­ak­san­dr Ihnat­siuk Yauhen Hlushk­ou Ales Marchanka Vol­ha Radzivon­a­va Anton Kazel­s­ki Dami­il Palian­s­ki, Ihar Ilyash Siarhei Chabot­s­ka Work­ers of the Intex-press edi­to­r­i­al office Aleh Supruniuk Pali­na […]