PEN Belarus and the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ) invite inter­na­tion­al part­ners and media rep­re­sen­ta­tives to a brief­ing on the sit­u­a­tion of cul­tur­al and media repres­sion in Belarus. The brief­ing will fea­ture jour­nal­ists recent­ly released from prison after being con­vict­ed of «extrem­ism», as well as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of PEN Belarus, who will present infor­ma­tion about banned … Con­tin­ue read­ing Brief­ing, Novem­ber 27! Banned peo­ple: How writ­ers and jour­nal­ists work in Belarus, where inde­pen­dent work is brand­ed «extrem­ism»