Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenka signed a decree pardoning 30 political prisoners, including Ksenia Lutskina, a former employee of the state-run Belteleradiocompany. Lutskina had spent four years behind bars..

WPF firmly stands in solidarity with Alena Timashchuk, who received a 5-year prison term on allegations of damaging Belarus' image, inciting hatred, and purported involvement in an "extremist formation."

CFWIJ and WPF is appalled by the recent criminal charges filed against exiled journalist Hanna Liubakova and 19 others who are currently residing abroad.

Belarusian authorities arrested two former journalists with Ranak TV, Yulia Dauletava and Liudmila Andzenka, while their colleague Alena Shcherbin is missing.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism expresses its shock and dismay at the sentencing of former Belsat TV reporter Larysa Shchyrakova.

KGB bans Justyna Prus from the country days after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka signs law allowing authorities to bar foreign correspondents.

Belarus authorities continue their oppression of journalists by detaining nine employees of local Svetlogorsk media outlet Ranak TV, including 5 women journalists.

Tatsiana Pytsko and her husband face years in prison for allegedly creating “extremist content.”

Border Guards deny entry to Belarusian journalist Elena Kovalchuk who had planned to attend the Lviv Media Forum.

TUT.by editor-in-chief Maryna Zolatava and CEO Lyudmila Chekina sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Minsk City Court.

Belarusian journalist Anastasia Sharkevich was detained by police. CFWIJ is alarmed at the video of her apparently “repenting” for her actions.

Yuliya Mudreuskaya becomes the latest Belarussian journalist to receive an absurd sentence from the authoritarian state.

A court in Minsk has ordered journalist Yekaterina Yanshina to 15 days in jail for “petty hooliganism”.

Minsk City Court sentenced journalist Ksenia Lutskina to eight years of incarceration.

Darya Chultsova, 25, a Belarus journalist at Belsat TV was released after serving a full two-year sentence in a women’s penal colony in Gomel, southwestern Belarus.