Barys Haretski

The inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty con­tin­ues to demand the release of Belaru­sian col­leagues. The BAJ sum­ma­rizes the inter­im results of the Sol­i­dar­i­ty Marathon, which has been ongo­ing for a year and four months.

Dur­ing his trip to Kyiv, Deputy Chair­man of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists Barys Haret­s­ki met with Chair­man of the Nation­al Union of Jour­nal­ists of Ukraine Ser­hii Tomilenko.

On August 8, an infor­ma­tion stand was opened in Helsin­ki fea­tur­ing mail­box­es for let­ters to be sent to Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists who are behind bars. The mount has been installed in the Media Muse­um Merk­ki.

The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ) was dis­solved by the author­i­ties in 2021. Quick­ly resum­ing its activ­i­ties abroad, the orga­ni­za­tion con­tin­ues to keep the inter­na­tion­al jour­nal­is­tic community’s atten­tion on the dire state of free­dom of speech in Belarus. Reform.news spoke with BAJ Deputy Chair­man Barys Haret­s­ki about how, despite repres­sion and reduced fund­ing, Belaru­sian media […]