Belarus

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is devastated by the loss of two colleagues who died last night in a car crash in Belarus.

RFE/RL journalists, often at great personal risk, work to spread knowledge and combat lies to ensure that people even in the world’s most oppressed nations have access to the truth. 

In this edition of Briefly, RFE/RL Minsk-based journalist Alaksandra Dynko talks about the challenges reporters face in Belarus and the dangers of speaking openly about the coronavirus.

In recognition of March 8, International Women’s Day, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) continues to promote and celebrate the contributions of women who make headlines.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have been targeted in no fewer than 38 incidents in at least 12 of the countries they cover in 2017.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have been targeted in hostile incidents in at least 10 countries in 2017, in what the company called “relentless pressure” on its journalistic mission.

An RFE/RL reporter was among several demonstrators and journalists detained by police in Belarus on March 12 while reporting on the latest in a series of emotional protests over a controversial tax on the unemployed.

Radio Svaboda journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich was warned Minsk’s municipal prosecutor’s office about violating Belarus’ “Law on Mass Media.”

Belarus police assaulted and interrogated an RFE/RL correspondent at an opposition meeting outside of Minsk.

Havel journalism fellow Franak Viačorka explains the risks civil society groups take in Belarus.