The IPI global network today expresses grave concern over the latest efforts by state authorities in Belarus to stamp out any remaining form of independent media left within the country and urges the international community to respond firmly to the latest string of attacks on media freedom and freedom of expression. On 4 November, the […]

Yuliya Slutskaya, the founder of Press Club Belarus and a long-time, fierce advocate of independent journalism in Belarus, was jailed last December along with four of her colleagues – including her son – and spent eight months in pre-trial detention. She was honoured at this month’s IPI World Congress as the 2021 IPI-IMS World Press […]

Yuliya Slutskaya, the founder and chairperson of Press Club Belarus and an unswerving beacon of quality, independent journalism in the repressive former Soviet republic, is the International Press Institute (IPI)‘s 72nd World Press Freedom Hero. The World Press Freedom Hero award honours journalists who have made significant contributions to the promotion of press freedom, particularly […]

On August 27, the Supreme Court of Belarus liquidated the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), an internationally respected press freedom and journalists’ rights organization. The IPI global network today condemned this politically motivated decision and calls for an immediate end to the systematic oppression of independent journalism and freedom of expression in Belarus. The justice […]