According to information before IPI, the Minsk City Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal inquiry into the possible defamation of the President of Belarus in a series of satirical Internet cartoons. One of the cartoons’ characters apparently bears a similarity to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenka; others are similar to other government officials. A group of Belarusian […]

According to information before the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, several Polish and Belarusian journalists of Polish descent were recently harassed and detained in the Belarusian cities of Schuchin and Grodno. On 1 August, Belarusian police arrested Andrzej Pisalnik, editor-in-chief of Glos znad Niemna, a Polish minority […]

H.E. Alexander Lukashenko President Office of the President Minsk Republic of Belarus Fax: +375 17 222 35 03 Vienna, 28 April 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the prison sentences given to two Russian journalists in Minsk […]

H.E. Aleksandr Lukashenko President Office of the President Minsk Republic of Belarus Fax: +375 17 222 35 03 Vienna, 3 November 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the prison sentence handed to Pavel Mazheyka, head of the […]