Imprisoned Journalists

Kyrgyz authorities block RFE/RL websites, Darya Losik detained, Iranian authorities seize Radio Farda journalist’s remains, further repression in Russia, and more.

Aleh Hruzdzilovich released from prison in Belarus, Vladyslav Yesypenko receives Free Media Award, Afghanistan one year later, and more.

Today, RFE/RL journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich was released from prison in Belarus after serving nine months of an unjust sentence.

Imprisoned Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko has been selected by the Fritt Ord Foundation and the ZEIT-Stiftung as one of this year’s award recipients.

Consumers of RFE/RL content in Belarus sentenced; Media situation in Tajikistan rapidly declines; and more.

RFE/RL condemns the Lukashenka regime’s addition of imprisoned RFE/RL Belarus Service journalist Ihar Losik to a terrorist watch list.

RFE/RL journalists beaten and threatened in Tajikistan; Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint; Pulitzer Prize board honors Ukrainian journalists; and more.

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Belarus Service, was sentenced on June 8 to six years in a maximum-security prison.

RFE/RL remembers Ukrainian Service journalist Vira Hyrych, who was killed in a Russian air strike in Kyiv.

RFE/RL welcomes the announcement by PEN America of Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko as the recipient of the 2022 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.