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  • Press conference: Assault on freedom of speech in Belarus 22.01

    The regime has deprived TUT.BY, the largest news portal in Belarus, of its media status, and the Ministry of Information is assessing whether to block the access to the website. Members of Press Club Belarus team are in jail for already a month. How to resist repression? How does the journalistic community deal with pressure? What is the situation with the regional media? Spoiler alert: everything is pretty bad there too.

    Speak­ers:

    • Mary­na Zolata­va, edi­tor-in-chief of TUT.BY

    • Nadzeya Belahvostik, edi­tor-in-chief of Media IQ which mon­i­tors media’s com­pli­ance to the stan­dards of jour­nal­ism (a project of Press Club Belarus)

    • Natalia Beliko­va, Press Club Belarus’ rep­re­sen­ta­tive

    • Barys Haret­s­ki, Deputy Chair­man of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists

    • Svi­at­lana Har­da, edi­tor-in-chief of Media-Polesye, a region­al pub­li­ca­tion

    The online press con­fer­ence will take place on Jan­u­ary 22nd at 1:00 PM Min­sk time (11 AM CET)

    To reg­is­ter for the event, please fill out the Google form http://bit.ly/3qAJtTL

    You will receive a link to the press con­fer­ence from the mailouts@solidarityby.eu mail­box to your e‑mail address approx­i­mate­ly an hour before the press con­fer­ence.

    Work­ing lan­guages: Belaru­sian and Russian with simul­ta­ne­ous trans­la­tion into Eng­lish.

    Orga­niz­ers:

    • Belarus in Focus Infor­ma­tion Office

    • Press Club Belarus

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