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February 8, 2012 · Comments Off

Belarus – Partner organization targeted by state TV hate propaganda

Reporters Without Borders condemns a state TV attempt to smear the Minsk-based Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), a Reporters Without Borders partner organization and International Federation of Journalists affiliate that is the country’s only autonomous association of media workers. The protection and support that BAJ provides to independent journalists and its constant defence of the freedom to report news and information have never been so valuable as in the past year, when the government has cracked down in an unprecedented manner on Belarusian civil society

Blog: What US can’t accept in Belarus, it supports in Uzbekistan – CPJ

January 11, 2012 · Comments Off

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Last week, President Obama signed into law a bill that expands sanctions against Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko continues to

A year on from Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel: China still ‘under shadow of the future’ – NED

December 9, 2011 · Comments Off

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): One year after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in absentia (above) to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, Carl

Bialiatski Conviction Latest Human Rights Abuse in Belarus

November 28, 2011 · Comments Off

Freedom House: Freedom House condemns yesterday's sentencing of Ales Bialiatski, prominent Belarusian human rights defender and head of the Human Rights Center 'Viasna,' to 4.5 years in

Belarus: Drop Charges Against Activist – Human Rights Watch

November 1, 2011 · Comments Off

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Belarusian authorities should dismiss criminal charges against a leading human rights defender, Ales Bialiatski, and release him immediately from custody. (Moscow,

CEPA and Freedom House Release Belarus Working Group Report

September 25, 2011 · Comments Off

Freedom House: The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and Freedom House today announced the publication of a groundbreaking report, 'Democratic Change in Belarus: A Framework for

Freedom House Releases Report: "Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On"

August 22, 2011 · Comments Off

Freedom House: Freedom House today launched a web feature presenting its latest special report, 'Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,' to mark the 20th

Europe and Central Asia – OSCE urged to prioritise protection of journalists in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

June 11, 2011 · Comments Off

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: A new report released by ARTICLE 19 and IMS shows that a lack of investigation into violence against journalists in the three

Belarus – Increased harassment of journalists on eve of Freedom Day

March 27, 2011 · Comments Off

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the arrests of journalists Aleksandr Lomashkin and Ales Asiptsu in separate incidents yesterday, on the

Freedom House Condemns Belarus Postelection Trials, Continuing Crackdown

February 17, 2011 · Comments Off

Freedom House: As trials are set to begin for those arrested in the postelection crackdown in Belarus, Freedom House continues its call for Belarusian authorities to immediately

Attacks on the Press 2010: Belarus

February 15, 2011 · Comments Off

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Top Developments
• Authorities wage post-election crackdown, raiding newsrooms and jailing reporters.
• New Internet law requires registration of sites,

Andrzej Poczobut sentenced to prison in Belarus

February 13, 2011 · Comments Off

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New York, February 11, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's imprisonment in Minsk of Andrzej Poczobut, a Grodno correspondent for