/PRNewswire/ The International Women s Media Foundation (IWMF) today announced the recipients of its 31st annual Courage in Journalism Awards. This year s.
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April 09, 2021
RUSSIA A view shows the newsroom of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcaster in Moscow,, April 6, 2021 /
The newsroom of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcaster, Moscow bureau, April 6, 2021.
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An RFE/RL freelance correspondent arrested in Ukraine s Russia-annexed Crimea has told a court he was tortured with electric shocks, beaten, and threatened with death unless he confessed to spying on behalf of Ukraine. Vladyslav Yesypenko s lawyer on April 6 said his client testified during a closed-door court hearing that the torture lasted two days after his arrest in March on what the defense calls false charges. On Wednesday, April 7, Yesypenko was
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Do the authors of the illegal verdicts realize that the party grandees have set them up?
To be honest, no one ever hoped that Dasha and Katsia would be released. It never happens this way in Belarus these days. And in general it never happens so that the judge would suddenly sentence to less than the prosecutor s demand. And the prosecutor wanted precisely two years. And so it happened.
Katsiaryna Andreyeva and
Darja Chultsova, journalists of the Polish Belsat channel, broadcasting in Belarusian, were found guilty of organizing activities that grossly violate public order and sentenced (each of them) to two years in prison.