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On March 4, Min­sk City Court announced a ver­dict for musi­cian, researcher, and radio host Aleh Khamen­ka. He was found guilty of “facil­i­tat­ing extrem­ist activ­i­ties.”

Belaru­sian court sen­tences 2 jour­nal­ists to 14, 12 years in prison, heavy fines. Belaru­sian author­i­ties should imme­di­ate­ly release jour­nal­ists Uladz­imir Yanuke­vich and Andrei Pakalen­ka, and stop jail­ing jour­nal­ists for their work, said the Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists. 

A sur­vey con­duct­ed by the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ) in Feb­ru­ary iden­ti­fied the top needs of Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists and media work­ers who were recent­ly released after fac­ing crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion.

On Feb­ru­ary 26, 2026, the Brest Region­al Court announced sen­tences for the for­mer heads of the Baranavichy news por­tal BAR24 and, pre­vi­ous­ly, the inde­pen­dent news­pa­per Intex-Press: Uladz­imir Yanuke­vich and Andrei Pakalen­ka.

Rus­si­a’s full-scale war against Ukraine has been ongo­ing for four years. Accord­ing to BAJ part­ners at the Nation­al Union of Jour­nal­ists of Ukraine (NUJU), since the start of the full-scale inva­sion, Russ­ian aggres­sors have killed at least 144 media work­ers.

Mass media in Belarus in Octo­ber – Decem­ber 2025. Review. Down­load PDF.

Han­na Plakhat­niuk, a jour­nal­ist and pro­pa­gan­dist known for her close ties to secu­ri­ty agen­cies, has been appoint­ed head of Homel City Radio. Her appoint­ment was approved by the head of the region­al exec­u­tive com­mit­tee.

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 […]

Polit­i­cal pris­on­er and jour­nal­ist Pavel Dabravol­s­ki is charged with “high trea­son”. He faces up to 15 years impris­on­ment.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with impris­oned jour­nal­ist Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau, writer Mar­garet Atwood, Thurston Moore of Son­ic Youth, Nadya of Pussy Riot, and Sir Trevor Phillips joined togeth­er to read a poem Andrei wrote in July 2021 while in a pre-tri­al deten­tion cen­ter.

He learned about this from his par­ents, who were sum­moned for inter­ro­ga­tion. How­ev­er, Miko­la does not know the exact offense he is charged with.

The inter­na­tion­al vol­un­teer com­mu­ni­ty Inform­Na­palm has pub­licly appealed to Ukraine’s Main Direc­torate of Intel­li­gence to con­sid­er exchang­ing Ina Kar­dash — a jour­nal­ist detained in Kyiv on sus­pi­cion of spy­ing for the Belaru­sian KGB since 2015 — for jour­nal­ist Dzia­n­is Ivashyn, head of InformNapalm.org’s Belaru­sian edi­to­r­i­al office

Joint state­ment by the Belaru­sian human rights com­mu­ni­ty.

Polit­i­cal pris­on­er Vat­slau Aresh­ka marked his fourth birth­day behind bars on Jan­u­ary 18, turn­ing 71. Human rights defend­ers have includ­ed him on the list of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers with extreme­ly vul­ner­a­ble health con­di­tions — Aresh­ka has lost almost all of his vision while impris­oned.

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.