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STATEMENT by member of the European Pparliament Petras Auštrevičius on freezing cooperation with Belarusian authorities within the EU Eastern Partnership policy framework
September 11, 2020
Homiel: Two Belsat TV contributors detained
Larysa Shchyrakova, a Homiel-based Belsat journalist, is currently in the police department.
September 11, 2020
Investigative Committee: BAJ appeal concerning detention of 47 journalists is “abstract”. Case will not be examined
September 11, 2020
EFJ calls on Council of Europe to support Belarusian journalists
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) on Tuesday called on the member states of the Council of Europe to put an end to the repression of journalists in Belarus. 159 journalists have been detained since the fraudulent elections of 9 August.
September 09, 2020
Valeria Ulasik charges under administrative case, apartment search
In the morning, the police knocked on the doors of BAJ member Valeria Ulasik. They searched her apartment. She is a suspect in an administrative case.
During the search the police seized cell phones, two laptops and flash drives.
Her mother, TUT.BY editor Halina Ulasik is not detained. She is talking to a lawyer after the search. Valeria Ulasik is also a journalist, and works in PR sphere.
September 08, 2020
Six journalists were detained over weekend. Two people weren’t released
September 07, 2020
Lithuanian journalists urge all democratic countries to unite and defend Belarussian journalists
Today the Lithuanian Union of Journalists’ (LŽS) Journalist Rights Defence and Monitoring Committee officially appealed to the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a proposal to take active action to defend journalists in neighbouring Belarus from baseless persecution.
September 04, 2020
Human Rights in Belarus: UN Security Council Arria meeting. Speech of the BAJ representative
September 04, 2020
Journalists demonstrate; police make new arrests
September 04, 2020
151 journalists were detained in Belarus in August
September 02, 2020
Journalists detained on September 1 charged with participation in an unauthorized action
September 01, 2020
The following journalists were deprived of accreditation
Journalists deprived of accreditation in Belarus on August 29:
August 29, 2020
Wall of silence in Belarus: massive withdrawal of press accreditations
After the arbitrary detention of about 50 journalists on Thursday, the Belarusian authorities are stepping up the withdrawal of press accreditations for journalists covering the country’s news for foreign media. A wall of silence is gradually isolating Belarus from the rest of the world. The EFJ condemns the inaction and wait-and-see attitude of the international community.
The Belarusian Interdepartmental Commission on Security in the Information Sphere has proceeded to a massive cancellation of press accreditations issued to journalists working for foreign media (AFP, AP, ARD, BBC, RFE/RL, Reuters, RFI…) in recent days.
August 29, 2020
Foreign journalists lose their accreditation in Belarus
The journalists of the German TV channel ARD detained the day before in Minsk and have been stripped of their accreditation. Russian representatives will be deported from Belarus. A protocol has been drawn up against the Belarusian representative Ilia Kuzniatsou for his alleged participation in a mass action. It also became known that Belarusian journalists working for the BBC, Reuters, Radio Svaboda, AFP and others have been denied accreditation.
August 29, 2020
Belarus: criminal complaint against obstruction of journalists’ work
August 28, 2020
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