RSF

Nine Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists — includ­ing Ihar Losik of Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib­er­ty, detained for more than five years — have been freed after spend­ing months — in some cas­es years — in prison sim­ply for doing their jobs. Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF) wel­comes this deci­sion but con­demns their expul­sion to Lithua­nia and urges the author­i­ties […]

After five years of inflict­ing an unprece­dent­ed crack­down on the press, Alexan­der Lukashenko is set to run for a sev­enth pres­i­den­tial term on Sun­day, 26 Jan­u­ary. Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF) has filed a com­plaint with the Inter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) against the Belaru­sian leader for crimes against human­i­ty, as jour­nal­ists con­tin­ue to be over­whelm­ing­ly tar­get­ed […]