For four months, Belarusians have been peacefully demonstrating for democracy. Meanwhile, the journalists reporting this story have been arrested, fined, beaten, deported or denied accreditation amid the Lukashenko government’s crackdown. The International Press Institute (IPI) today published a full-page print advertisement in The Washington Post calling on the international community to stand up for press […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the latest arrests of journalists and media workers covering ongoing anti-government protests by police in Belarus. In total, at least 206 journalists have now been detained in the capital Minsk and across the country since […]

The mass detention and deportation journalists in Belarus on the back of widespread internet access restrictions are leading to one of the worst media freedom crackdowns anywhere in Europe in recent decades, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. In the latest crackdown on journalists covering nationwide anti-government protests, three journalists were detained during a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently criticized Belarus for cancelling the accreditation of at least 17 journalists representing major global media outlets. The Belarusian government today withdrew the accreditation of journalists working for the Associated Press, AFP, German television network ARD, […]