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Sports journalist sentenced to 15 days in jail over “extremist” content
Press Club Belarus founder wins World Press Freedom Hero award
Press Club Belarus founder Julija Sluckaja has been announced the winner of the 2021 World Press Freedom Hero award.
Awarded by the International Press Institute (IPI), the World Press Freedom Hero award honors journalists who have made significant contributions to the promotion of press freedom, particularly in the face of great personal risk.
Police trash apartment of former TV presenter
Police raided the Minsk home of former TV and radio presenter Kaciaryna Pytlieva, tearing the apartment apart in what looked like an act of retaliation.
Access to popular local news site blocked over “extremist” content
Minsk, 7 September. Access to the Media-Polesye online news publication has been blocked by decision of the Brest Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Tuesday.
BelaPAN current and former directors charged with tax evasion
Minsk, 7 September. BelaPAN Director General Iryna Lieŭšyna and Dzmitryj Navažylaŭ, the news agency’s former director general, have been formally charged with tax evasion under Part Two of the Criminal Code’s Article 243, a source with knowledge of the matter told BelaPAN.
Another journalist linked to sports news site arrested over protests
Minsk, 7 September. Andrej Masloŭski, a journalist who worked for the now-blacklisted sports news website by.tribuna.com for more than a decade, was arrested on September 6.
Crackdown on independent journalists continues in Belarus
Authorities reject request for release of prominent journalist Andrej Skurko
Authorities raid homes of sports journalists
Media manager Andrei Aliaksandrau suspected of tax evasion
IFJ President Younes MJahed: We strongly condemn liquidation BAJ
European Federation of Journalists and International Federation of Journalists strongly condemn liquidation BAJ
IFEX stands with Belarusian Association of Journalists
Supreme Court liquidated Belarusian Association of Journalists
Supreme Court didn’t allow BAJ’s appeal against Justice Ministry’s warning. Next session is scheduled for August 27
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