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Belorusy i rynok newspaper suspends its publication after 32 years of printing
The publication is missing from the Belarusian post catalog for the first half of 2023. There will be no print or electronic PDF version of the newspaper during this period, the editorial office told @pozirkonline.
December 07, 2022
Ex-journalist Larysa Shchyrakova detained in Homel, her son taken to orphanage
December 07, 2022
Journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich to receive Hope for Freedom Award
December 02, 2022
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “Strong democracy cannot be built without independent media”
December 01, 2022
BAJ, Viasna and ABF start collecting humanitarian aid for Ukraine in Vilnius
December 01, 2022
Ten years of imprisonment: Supreme Court dismisses Aliaksandr Fiaduta’s appeal
November 30, 2022
Dzianis Ivashyn preventively registered as extremism-prone
Human rights activists found out that last spring Hrodna prison administration preventively
registered journalist Dzianis Ivashyn as “prone to extremism and other destructive actions.” It is
known that almost all political prisoners have such a status, which once again proves the political
motivation behind the criminal prosecution of Ivashyn.
November 30, 2022
August2020 Instagram page deemed extremist
November 24, 2022
Hrodna.life declared “extremist formation”
Belarusian authorities have updated the List of Organizations, Formations, and Individual Entrepreneurs Involved in Extremist Activities. Another media outlet, Hrodna.life, was added to it. The updated list is published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
November 24, 2022
Vitsebsk journalist fined $1,200
November 17, 2022
Italy: Open letter to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in support of Roberto Saviano
On 15 November 2022, writer, journalist, and PEN award winner Roberto Saviano will stand trial in Rome on charges of defaming Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s Prime Minister and leader of Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots, over a speech that criticized the far-right leader after she said that NGO boats attempting to rescue refugees in the central Mediterranean should be sunk and migrants left adrift at sea. Saviano is being sued under Article 595 of the Italian Penal Code, which carries up to three years in prison.
November 09, 2022
Norwegian journalists express solidarity with Yauhen Merkis
Last weekend Norwegian Association of Journalists in Bergen gathered its activists for the conference Hauststormen (Autumn Storm) to discuss working issues and plans for the future. Our fellow journalists are aware of repressions against Belarusian journalists and organize campaigns in their support.
November 09, 2022
Support for Politically Incarcerated Journalists Irina Levshina and Andrei Aleksandrov
On October 6, 2022, the Minsk Regional Court handed down a verdict in the “BelaPAN case,” the oldest independent news agency in Belarus.
October 31, 2022
Belarusian journalist Aliaksandr Lyubyanchuk sentenced to 3 years in prison
October 29, 2022
Journalist Ales Lubianchuk sentenced to 3 years in prison
October 27, 2022
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