As the country marks the third anniversary of manipulated elections that kept “Europe’s last dictator” in power – and the launch of a brutal crackdown – we spoke with BAJ about their ongoing global Solidarity Marathon on behalf of imprisoned journalists.
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On 1 December, the authorities in Belarus arrested and searched the houses of several independent journalists across the country for simply doing their job. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) join their Belarusian affiliate, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), in solidarity with the journalists affected and condemn the government’s systematic harassment of independent journalists.