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Authorities seize independent newspaper’s entire print run

Published on 16 January 2012Read

Big Brother is watching

Belarus authorities turn up the heat on the Internet

Published on 6 January 2012Read

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Harassment of the independent newspapers Narodnaya Volya and Nasha Niva continues despite last month’s withdrawal of a legal bid to have them (...)

Published on 8 August 2011 Read

Updates on media freedom violations during protests in Belarus

Because of the ongoing crisis in Belarus, Reporters Without Borders has decided to provide regular updates on media freedom violations linked to (...)

Published on 21 July 2011 Read

Reporter freed but under even closer watch after suspended sentence

Andrzej Poczobut, the correspondent of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza in the western city of Hrodna, was freed today after a Hrodna court (...)

Published on 5 July 2011 Read

Russian journalist deported, banned from returning for five years

Russian TV reporter Rodion Marinichev was given 24 hours to leave the country after his arrest yesterday in Minsk and was banned from returning (...)

Published on 31 May 2011 Read

Journalist gets two-year suspended jail sentence

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the two-year suspended jail sentence that a Minsk court imposed today on Belarusian journalist Irina (...)

Published on 16 May 2011 Read

Authorities target journalists again after 11 April metro bombing

Reporters Without Borders is concerned to see that a bombing in the Minsk metro on 11 April, which killed 13 people, has prompted a new round of (...)

Published on 21 April 2011 Read

Open season declared on journalists

There has been no let-up in the harassment of journalists that began on the eve of on 25 March, which the Belarusian opposition celebrates as (...)

Published on 29 March 2011 Read

Authorities seek to suppress news of plight of held journalists

Reporters Without Borders today expresses its deep concern in respect of the conditions in which journalists and political opponents have been (...)

Published on 24 January 2011 Read

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Belarus - 18 January 2012

Outrageous verdicts in Hrant Dink murder trial, another one needed

Belarus - 17 January 2012

ActiveWatch - MMA and Reporters Without Borders condemn acts of violence during protests

Belarus - 17 January 2012

Hrant Dink murder trial about to end in cover-up, unless...

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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