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May 20, 2021 Share The European Union has slammed Belarus for its closure of the country’s biggest independent online news publication, Tut.by, as one of its reporters left prison after serving six months for her reporting on the death of a protester killed during a crackdown on demonstrations against authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko. In a statement on May 19, an EU spokesman called the blocking a day earlier of the popular news site an “act of continued repression and intim...

18 May 2021, 18:33 UTC Reacting to the news that TUT.by, one of Belarus’ leading independent online media outlets, was blocked today by the country’s Ministry of Information, Amnesty International’s Senior Campaigner on Belarus, Aisha Jung, said: “This is a cowardly step taken by a government which fears truth and resorts to brutal measures to suppress human rights. It must end its suffocating crackdown on independent voices and immediately reverse the blocking of TUT.by.” “The blo...

Chronicling The Bloody Belarus Crackdown Is An Imperative For This Online News Editor, Despite Pressure May 02, 2021 14:36 GMT Share share Print Anger spilled onto the streets of Minsk and across Belarus on August 9, 2020, shortly after polls closed and a state-run exit survey pointed to a big victory for Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Protesters marched through the streets of the capital, many No election in Belarus under Lukashenka, in power since 1994, had been deemed free or fair by the West, and ...

People take part in a rally for women’s rights and protection, after a young woman kidnapped for marriage was found dead, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 8 April 2021, VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP via Getty Images April 2021 in Europe and Central Asia: A free expression round up produced by IFEXs Regional Editor Cathal Sheerin, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region. April reminded us that “strongmen” are the wrong men if you want a free press and vibrant civil society....

Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since he came into power in 1994, has cracked down violently on the still-ongoing protests in which police have detained more than 33,000 people. Belarus "is not a member of the Council of Europe – it still has the death penalty which is an automatic bar to its membership. This means that it is not subject to... requirements... to bring its prison system in line with the norms outlined in the European Prison Rules.... All prisoners are vulnerable to their tre...

share Print Dismissed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka as too fragile to run Belarus, women have been at the vanguard of the pro-democracy movement that has swept the country since the disputed presidential election on August 9, 2020. Its a Belarusian development that has fueled a growing global trend, explained Oksana Antonenko, director of the London-based Control Risks Group and fellow at the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. "Women are playing a...

A physician and a journalist in Belarus have been convicted of disclosing information that contradicted official statements about the death of a protester killed during a crackdown on demonstrations against authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Belarusian Doctor, Journalist Go On Trial For Revealing Info On Slain Protester February 19, 2021 12:34 GMT Share share MINSK -- A physician and a journalist in Belarus have gone on trial for allegedly disclosing information about a protester killed during a crackdown on demonstrations against authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The Moscow district court in Minsk started the trial of Artsyom Sarokin and Katsyaryna Barysevich on February 19 with a decision to hold the process behind clos...