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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Thursday denounced that the number of journalists jailed for their reporting work has reached a historic Zenit in 2021, with 293 of them imprisoned worldwide, 50 of whom were in China.

Authoritarian regimes are silencing independent journalism around the globe, often by rewriting laws to criminalize reporting

NEXTA Telegram channel co-founder asks Poland for additional protection According to Polish media reports, Polish intelligence agencies have already provided Stepan Putilo with a round-the-clock security detail in August 2020 WARSAW, May 27. /TASS/. Stepan Putilo, co-founder of NEXTA and NEXTA-Live Telegram channels, deemed extremist in Belarus, contacted Polish authorities with a request for additional protection, Putilo himself said at a press conference in Warsaw Thursday. "We ask Poland for...

Why Lukashenko Is Winning In Belarus The West is offering impotent bluster as Lukashenko plays his cards shrewdly.  It’s almost game over for the opposition in Belarus. On May 23, a fake bomb threat and a Belarusian MiG-29 jet forced Ryan Air to land a commercial jet in Minsk, Belarus. The plane was carrying Raman Pratasevich, an administrator of the NEXTA-Live Telegram channel. In a country without independent media, NEXTA-Live functions as the nerve center of the democratic movement in Bel...