The International Press Institute (IPI) repeated its demand for the release of Roman Protasevich, former editor of the NEXTA Telegram channel in Belarus, after he appeared on state television to offer a forced “confession”. The disturbing segment was broadcast Thursday night on Belarus’s ONT channel. Protasevich praised Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko and admitted seeking to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the politically motivated jailing of yet another journalist in Belarus and called for her immediate release. On March 2, a court in Minsk sentenced Katsiaryna Barysevich, a reporter at the independent online portal Tut.by, to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today denounced the recent raids on the newsroom and homes of journalists and the editor-in-chief on Belarus’s largest independent news outlet TUT.BY. IPI renews its calls for an immediate end to the ongoing repression of independent journalism in Belarus and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the continued repression of journalists in Belarus and called for the immediate release of the 12 currently imprisoned journalists who have been prosecuted for carrying out their professional duties. In the latest sign of the continuing crackdown, on the morning of March 22 a journalist working for the […]