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State Control Committee visits publisher and director of Binoculars city magazine. Documents and 9 computers are seized.
Press conference ahead of Andreyeva’s and Chultsova’s trial (February 5, 12:00 CET)
Belarusian Association of Journalists and Reporters without Borders addressed the UN Special Rapporteur
Press conference: Assault on freedom of speech in Belarus 22.01
The regime has deprived TUT.BY, the largest news portal in Belarus, of its media status, and the Ministry of Information is assessing whether to block the access to the website. Members of Press Club Belarus team are in jail for already a month. How to resist repression? How does the journalistic community deal with pressure? What is the situation with the regional media? Spoiler alert: everything is pretty bad there too.
Investigative Committee cooperates with pro-governmental Belarusian Union of Journalists
The Investigative Committee of Belarus works in collaboration with the National Committee to Protect Journalists of the Belarusian Union of Journalists, as well as the "Authorized Representative for the Protection of Journalists" of BUJ Alexander Shpakouski.
Police search office of BelaPAN news agency
No one was detained. Investigative Committee officers seized equipment from the office.
The search was done as part of the case journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau.
Criminal case started against journalist and media manager Andrei Aliaksandrau
Case of Belsat’s Andreyeva and Chultsova brought to court
On January 12 Frunzenski district court of Minsk received the criminal case of Belsat journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva (Bakhvalava) and Daria Chultsova.
First trial in ‘Tsikhanouski case’ starts in Belarus
Political prisoner, author of YouTube channel “Slutsk for Life,” Uladzimir Nyaronski is standing trial in Lahoisk. This is the first trial in the “Tsikhanouski case,” reports Spring96.org
Jailed Belsat TV journo may stand trial soon, family says
Jailed Belarusian blogger Ihar Losik on hunger strike for 28 days
Charges pressed against Press Club Belarus leaders
Hantsavitski Chas newspaper and its publisher’s home searched by police
FIGURES OF THE YEAR. Repression of media and journalists in Belarus in 2020
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