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UN experts call for immediate release of jailed Nobel winner and other rights defenders in Belarus
GENEVA (10 October 2022) - UN experts* today reiterated calls for the release of Ales Bialiatski after the Nobel Committee’s decision to symbolically award him the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize for his fearless work promoting human rights in Belarus.
Police-affiliated Telegram channel published video of detained journalists Aliaksandr Lychauka and Sniazhana Inanets
Ales Bialiatski becomes Nobel Peace Prize laureate
CPJ condemns Belarus ‘witch hunt’ after three BelaPAN journalists sentenced to lengthy prison terms
Defendants in BelaPAN case sentenced to 4 to 14 years of prison
On 6 October, the Minsk Regional Court announced the sentences for the four defendants in the case of the BelaPAN independent news agency. Political prisoners will have to spend the next few years behind bars.
KGB puts political prisoner Andrei Pachobut on “terrorist list”
Ex-state media journalist Dzmitry Semchanka sentenced to 13 more days of arrest
Journalist Ksenia Lutskina sentenced to 8 years in prison
Belarusian RFE/RL Journalist Released From Penal Colony, Arrives In Lithuania
Journalist Pavel Mazheika recognized as political prisoner
“Espionage”. Supreme Court changed wording in Katsiaryna Andreyeva’s case while uphelding the verdict
Bobruisky Kurier chief editor Anatol Sanatsenka detained
Remembrance Day for Fallen Journalists of Ukraine marked by exhibition presenting work of media workers during the war in Vilnius
Help for the family of Denis Ivashin, a journalist on trial for “treason against the state”
Journalist Jauhen Merkis is in detention, searches are underway in connection with his criminal case
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