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Twenty-seven years after the worst nuclear power accident in history, Aliaksandr Zianchuk argues that propaganda dissuades Belarusians from thinking critically about Chernobyl's lasting impacts on health and the environment.
Belarus Highlights
Free Expression & the LawIndependent journalists Dzmitry Halko and Alyaksandr Yarashevich were arrested in Minsk on 6 May after covering the release of a group of jailed demonstrators.
Censorship
In Belarus, over half of the population accepts state propaganda as truth. Yanina Melnikava argues that the Belarusian state would like to keep it this way.
Free Expression & the Law
Andrzej Poczobut is no longer charged with defaming the president of Belarus, but the reporter is still subject to a three-year suspended jail sentence that he received in 2011 on a similar charge.
Human Rights Watch
Index on Censorship
Digital Rights Censorship
4 January 2013
Human Rights Watch
Reporters Without Borders
Digital Rights Censorship
21 September 2012
Reporters Without Borders
International Press Institute
Attacks Free Expression & the Law
21 September 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Attacks Free Expression & the Law
4 September 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Human Rights Watch
International Eritrea
6 July 2012
Committee to Protect Journalists
International Press Institute
Human Rights Watch
Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International
ARTICLE 19
Norwegian PEN (Norwegian PEN)
Norwegian PEN
Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
ARTICLE 19
Norwegian PEN
Human Rights Watch
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