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27.05.2021
Pratasevich's lawyer files complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office demanding to see him
lawyer Inessa Alenskaya says she has no access to her client and insists on an urgent medical examination of Raman Pratasevich.
27.05.2021
Belsat TV journalist Katsyaryna Andreyeva transferred to penal colony in Homiel
A few days ago, journalist Ihar Ilyash, the husband of our imprisoned collegue Katsyaryna Andreyeva, was informed that his wife was transferred to the penal colony in Homiel, where she would serve the term.
27.05.2021
Lukashenko signs mass media law amendments into law
Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed a law that amends the legislation on mass media, BelTA has learned.
26.05.2021
Report: Women journalists are frontline warriors at the protests and in prisons in Belarus
Amidst all these censorship and harassment tactics the women journalists are risking their lives when they cover the protests and report on the state’s atrocities from the frontlines. Many women journalists have been detained and forced to stay silent. In detentions, they suffer assaults at the hands of authorities. Some of the excruciating details of the tortures in these detention centers were also exposed by the women journalists.
26.05.2021
TUT.BY employees are political prisoners. Joint statement by Belarusian human rights organizations
25.05.2021
Minsk: 15-day jail terms for Belsat TV support staff
On Monday, Tsentralny district court of Minsk started hearing the cases of Belsat TV support staff detained on May, 21.
25.05.2021
The host of the “Frankly Speaking” program left Belarus for security reasons. Now her relatives are being persecuted
The host of “Frankly Speaking” TV show on Belsat TV Arina Malinovskaya left Belarus because of possible persecution by the Belarusian authorities. But now her relatives are also in danger.
25.05.2021
Minsk: Reporter Ales Silich detained for ‘picketing’. He just had historical emblem on passport cover
On May 21, the Minsk police detained freelance journalists Ales Silich and Natallya Valakida; they were taken to Pershamayski district police department.
21.05.2021
Journalist Artsiom Mayorau arrested for 15 days
Artsiom Mayorau (European Radio for Belarus) was sentenced to 15 days of jail for alleged "disorderly conduct".