Press conference ahead of Andreyeva’s and Chultsova’s trial (February 5, 12:00 CET)

Novem­ber 15 the jour­nal­ists were livestream­ing from a protest on the «Square of Change» in Min­sk, when they were detained and accused of orga­niz­ing events seri­ous­ly under­min­ing pub­lic order (Part 1 of Arti­cle 342 of the Crim­i­nal Code).

The human rights com­mu­ni­ty has rec­og­nized Andreye­va and Chultso­va polit­i­cal pris­on­ers. Many Belaru­sian and inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions demand the imme­di­ate release of the jour­nal­ists. Their tri­al will start on Feb­ru­ary 9. The jour­nal­ists are fac­ing up to 3 years of impris­on­ment.

- How do the defen­dants and their fam­i­lies feel ahead of the tri­al?

- What to expect from the tri­al in this pure­ly polit­i­cal case against jour­nal­ists?

- How does the repres­sion of the media unfold in Belarus and what can Belaru­sian and inter­na­tion­al col­leagues do to help stop the arrests and per­se­cu­tion?

At the news con­fer­ence on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 5, you will hear from:

- Ihar Ilyash, hus­band of the accused jour­nal­ist Kat­siary­na Andreye­va;
 — Chair­man of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists Andrei Bas­tunets;
 — Deputy Direc­tor of Bel­sat TV chan­nel Ali­ak­sei Dzikav­it­s­ki.

The con­fer­ence will be held on Zoom on Feb­ru­ary 5 at 14:00 Min­sk (12:00 CET). To reg­is­ter, please fill in the ques­tion­naire

You will receive a Zoom link on the day of the con­fer­ence from press@baj.by. The lat­est ver­sion of Zoom (need­ed for simul­ta­ne­ous inter­pre­ta­tion func­tion to work prop­er­ly) can be down­loaded from here.

Work­ing lan­guages: Belaru­sian, with simul­ta­ne­ous inter­pre­ta­tion into Eng­lish.