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    Trial of journalist Ihar Ilyash paused as publications undergo examination

    The Min­sk City Court has announced a pause in the crim­i­nal tri­al of jour­nal­ist Ihar Ilyash. The tri­al began on Feb­ru­ary 21, with three court ses­sions held so far.
    March 14, 2025
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    Journalist Volha Radzivonava added to Belarus’ “extremist” list

    Vol­ha Radzivon­a­va, a jour­nal­ist who was sen­tenced in Decem­ber of last year, has been added to the Belaru­sian Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs’ list of indi­vid­u­als “con­nect­ed to extrem­ist activ­i­ties.”
    March 07, 2025
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    BYSOL evacuates journalist Kseniya Lutskina

    On the morn­ing of March 4, BYSOL co-founder Andrei Stryzhak announced that Kseniya Lut­ski­na had left Belarus and was now in a safe loca­tion.
    March 05, 2025
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    Journalist Palina Pitkevich recognized as political prisoner

    On Feb­ru­ary 27, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Belaru­sian human rights com­mu­ni­ty issued a spe­cial state­ment rec­og­niz­ing jour­nal­ist Pali­na Pitke­vich, who was detained by Belaru­sian author­i­ties, as a polit­i­cal pris­on­er.
    February 28, 2025
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    PEN International calls on Belarus to release journalist Poczobut

    PEN Inter­na­tion­al, a lit­er­ary and free­dom of expres­sion asso­ci­a­tion, has called for the imme­di­ate release of Pol­ish-Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist Andrzej Poc­zobut (Andrej Pačobut).
    February 24, 2025
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    EU, UK diplomats show solidarity with Belarusian journalist being tried for giving interviews

    Diplo­mats from the EU gath­ered out­side the Min­sk City Court today in a show of sol­i­dar­i­ty with jour­nal­ist Ihar Iljaš cur­rent­ly on tri­al on charges of sup­port­ing extrem­ism and dis­cred­it­ing Belarus.
    February 21, 2025
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    Pro-government TV journalists recorded an «interview» with the politically imprisoned journalist Ihar Karnei

    The pro-gov­ern­ment TV chan­nel ONT con­tin­ues its series of broad­casts «about employ­ees of the Amer­i­can media». After the episodes about Andrei Kuznechyk and Ihar Losik, the pro­pa­gan­dists announced a video fea­tur­ing free­lance jour­nal­ist Ihar Karnei. It will be aired on the evening of Jan­u­ary 16.
    January 16, 2025
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    ONT announced a program featuring the politically imprisoned blogger Ihar Losik

    Blog­ger Ihar Losik appeared for 20 sec­onds in the pro­pa­gan­da TV show «about employ­ees of the Amer­i­can media,» which was broad­cast on ONT on Jan­u­ary 14, 2025. Like jour­nal­ist Andrei Kuznechyk, he was brought to the KGB deten­tion cen­ter specif­i­cal­ly for this «inter­view». The gov­ern­ment-con­trolled TV sta­tion announced a «con­ver­sa­tion» with Losik for Jan­u­ary 15.
    January 15, 2025
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    Siarhei Chabotska, editor of Hrodna’s s13.ru, designated as political prisoner

    The Belaru­sian human rights com­mu­ni­ty made a cor­re­spond­ing state­ment on Decem­ber 28. Siarhei Chabot­s­ka, the own­er and edi­tor of the Hrod­na-based s13.ru media web­site, has been detained for more than two months. 
    January 01, 2025
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    “We are shocked”: British and German embassies condemn new wave of journalist arrests in Belarus

    The num­ber of known cas­es of deten­tion of media work­ers in Belarus has risen sharply to 45 peo­ple. Just last week, it was announced that jour­nal­ists from two more region­al pub­li­ca­tions had been detained.
    December 19, 2024
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    Media-Polesye videographer Yauhen Nikalayevich’s sentence revealed

    At the begin­ning of Octo­ber this year, the court of Pin­sk and Pin­sk dis­trict found Media-Polesye video­g­ra­ph­er Yauhen Nikalayevich guilty of par­tic­i­pa­tion in mass riots. The edi­to­r­i­al board learned that Judge Yauhe­nia Mel­nik sen­tenced the jour­nal­ist to one year and six months of impris­on­ment.
    December 19, 2024
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    Prosecutor’s Office: Volha Radzivonova sentenced for publications in Die Tageszeitung

    On 18 Decem­ber, the Gen­er­al Prosecutor’s Office of Belarus announced the grava­men in the case of jour­nal­ist Vol­ha Radzivono­va, who was sen­tenced to 4 years in prison.
    December 19, 2024
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    Journalist Igor Karney sentenced to another ten months in prison

    On Decem­ber 13, the Shk­lou Dis­trict Court found jour­nal­ist and polit­i­cal pris­on­er Ihar Karnei guilty of per­sis­tent dis­obe­di­ence to the demands of the prison admin­is­tra­tion. Judge Ali­ak­san­dr Tarakanau sen­tenced the jour­nal­ist to an addi­tion­al 10 months in prison.
    December 13, 2024
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    Mass arrests take place in Baranavichy targetting Intex-Press staff

    In ear­ly Decem­ber, the Brest branch of Vias­na report­ed that numer­ous employ­ees and jour­nal­ists of the recent­ly defunct pri­vate news­pa­per Intex-Press were appre­hend­ed in Baranavichy.
    December 13, 2024
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    Ihar Karnei faces another year in prison, endures prolonged isolation in correctional facility

    Ihar Karnei, a jour­nal­ist sen­tenced to three years in prison, is cur­rent­ly serv­ing his sen­tence at Cor­rec­tion­al Facil­i­ty No. 17 in Shk­lou. He is held in the Secure Hous­ing Unit most of the time. Karnei’s new tri­al is sched­uled for Decem­ber 11. He is accused of per­sis­tent dis­obe­di­ence to the demands of the prison admin­is­tra­tion.
    December 12, 2024
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