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06.11.2021
Authorities extend detention of sports journalist Aliaksandr Ivulin by another month
5 November. Aliaksandr Ivulin, a journalist with the now-blacklisted sports news website by.tribuna.com and soccer player who is viewed as a political prisoner by Belarusian human rights groups, has had his pretrial detention extended by another month, the unregistered Viasna Human Rights Center said on Friday.
05.11.2021
Protest in cell 15. Iryna Slaunikava and other detainees on hunger strike in detention center
Ten women have been on hunger strike in the double cell 15 in the temporary detention center in Akrestsin Street since the evening of November 3. There were plenty of reasons for this: it's been more than a year since the detainees were deprived of care packages, they are not taken to the shower or for a walk, the cells were overcrowded, medicines and the necessary medical treatment for COVID-19 were not provided.
04.11.2021
Authorities blocked website of Belarusian Association of Journalists
The Ministry of Information of Belarus has decided to block the access of Belarusian users to the website of our organization — the main independent journalistic association of the country. In August this year, the Supreme Court canceled our registration status.
03.11.2021
Belsat TV’s site, social media accounts labeled extremist group by police
According to the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, groups of citizens united with the help of Belsat online media were recognized as extremist groups and banned from operating in the Republic of Belarus.
03.11.2021
Belarusian journalists and BAJ won Free Media Awards
The winners of the Free Media Awards were awarded in Hamburg, all this year's winners being Belarusians. The winners were announced back in August. These are Katsiaryna Barysevich, Katsiaryna Andreyeva, Daria Chultsova, Natallia Lubneuskaya, the TUT.BY media outlet, and the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
02.11.2021
MASS MEDIA IN BELARUS. E-NEWSLETTER No.2 (64) 2021. Persecution of journalists in 2021
The situation in Belarusian mass media field has critically aggravated since the time of Presidential election a year ago.
01.11.2021
Belarusian authorities block access to website of Russia’s Regnum news agency
The website of Russia’s Regnum news agency stopped being accessible to users in Belarus on Saturday.
31.10.2021
Journalist Dzyanis Ivashyn charged with treason. He faces up to 15 years in prison
This follows from the response of the KGB Office for Grodno Region received by the journalist's wife Volha Ivashyna.
31.10.2021
Journalist Iryna Slaunikava arrested for "distribution of extremist materials" for 15 days
Journalist Iryna Slaunikava and her husband Aliaksandr Loika were arrested for "distribution of extremist materials" for 15 days each. This verdict was pronounced by the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk.
30.10.2021
CEO describes blocking of Deutsche Welle’s website in Belarus as “act of desperation”
Peter Limbourg, director-general of Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), has condemned the blocking of the DW website and a number of other media outlets in Belarus, saying that it is an “act of desperation” on the part of the Belarusian authorities.