With a 'mission to report the truth,' journalists from popular Belarus news outlet keep reporting even as Minsk shutters their website and puts colleagues on trial
The Belarusian Interior Ministry has added two RFE/RL journalists to its list of extremists amid an ongoing crackdown on independent media, opposition politicians, rights activists, and democratic institutions.
The Minsk City Court has sentenced journalist Ales Lyubyanchuk to three years in prison amid a crackdown on independent media and civil society in Belarus under authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Belarus prosecutors are seeking eight years in prison for an independent journalist on charges many consider ungrounded and politically motivated as a crackdown on independent media and civil society continues in the country run by the authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka since 1994.