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What is known so far about #FR4978 emergency landing. 1. It was close to #Lithuania border when someone informed about 'explosive'. 2. #Belarus authorities sent Mig-29 fighter jet to intercept the plane and force landing in #Minsk. 3. Former editor of @nexta_tv was on board 1/

Donate today to support #Belarus independent journalists in need #standwithbelarus #belarus facebook.com/donate/6725404…

A year on from the detention of journalist & our friend #AndreiAliaksandrau and his partner #IrinaZlobina, @article19org & @IndexCensorship call for solidarity, demand their release & urge to speak out against this harassment. 1/3 Join the campaign: article19.org/resources/bela…

My sincere congratulations to @pandadoc, the first Belarusian Unicorn! This is an example of what Belarusian business could be without Lukashenka. Happy they made it through the repressions, employees detention & arrest of managers. So genuinely proud of the Belarusian startup!

Yanina Melnikava of @Mediakritika_by and GreenPortal Belarus posted this morning that police came to her apartment. She is not reachable since then. #Belarus #JournalismIsNotACrime

web.telegram.org/z/#-1101865730 Four detainees of @pressclubby have been released today from the detention center after spending nearly 10 months there. It's not clear yet if charges against them are dropped. F Kseniya Lutskina reminds behind bars. #Belarus #JournalismIsNotACrime

Police searches houses of employees of the oldest independent news agency in #Belarus @belapan It’s director Iryna Leushyna can’t be reached by phone. This continues gov-t’s “cleansing” announced by #Lukashenka in July. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Our weekly report just in: we have helped more than 270 newsrooms and independent #Belarus journalists since September 2020. When the int-l media focus on other regions, it is still important to remember that #JournalismIsNotACrime in every corner of the world.

Nearly 1 year since infamous presidential elections in #Belarus more than 120 journalists had to leave the country facing unprecedented threats. We continue supporting them and those who stay in-country. Learn more at media.belarus97.pro #JournalismIsNotACrime

One of the oldest media rights defending organization @baj_by is being liquidated in the sweep that closed down more than 50 civil society orgs in #Belarus

Ina Studzinskaya of @svaboda has been released from detention center after several days on hunger strike. Dozens of journalists and media workers are still arrested. on trumped up charges. They are treated as 'political' detainees with no pillows/matresses, no personal hygiene.

Police raids @baj_by and dozens of human rights defenders, NGOs and think tanks in #Belarus. As we speak, people are detained, searched and beaten. @viasna96 provides updated info spring96.org/en/news/104287 Please, spread the word!

Since September 2020, we paid more than 326k eur in emergency funding to 232 independent journalists and media in #Belarus. Help us help free media. Donate 👉bit.ly/helpmedia21

More searches and arrests today: 1region, Hancavicki Chas, Virtual Brest, Inform-pragulka, freelancers in Babruisk and Brest. @nashaniva ed-in-chief says he was beaten during his arrest therefore medics came to the place of his detention. #Belarus #JournalismIsNotACrime

This is a black day for #Belarus independent journalism. Security services storm offices of @nashaniva @intex_press Brestskaya gazeta and detain ed-in-chief o @Orsha_eu Ihar Kazmierchak. NN.BY and euroradio.pl are blocked. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Police is in the office of @nashaniva independent daily, the ed-in-chief was seen accompanied by masked men. The website nn.by is not opening in #Belarus #JournalismIsNotACrime

For the first time, #Belarus is part of the new @IREXintl VIBE research. #PressFreedom irex.org/sites/default/…

More than 220 journalists and newsrooms received our support in #Belarus. In June, most of our support went to relocations and to those reporters who lost their income due to repressions. Learn more how to help: media.belarus97.pro

73. The Investigative Committee of #Belarus claims Pratasevich and Sapega agreed to cooperate with the investigation, thus their wish to be placed under house arrest was fulfilled. Opposition claims #Belarus FM was calling foreign FMs trying to trade house arrest for sanctions.

72. Both Raman Pratasevich and Sofia Sapega are placed under house arrest. They were also seen together filmed by state TV in the center of Minsk. #Belarus

What is known so far about #FR4978 emergency landing. 1. It was close to #Lithuania border when someone informed about 'explosive'. 2. #Belarus authorities sent Mig-29 fighter jet to intercept the plane and force landing in #Minsk. 3. Former editor of @nexta_tv was on board 1/

#Repression of the media in #Belarus continues: the Ministry of Justice requires the @baj_by to submit thousands of documents for the last 3.5 years of activity. And it needs to be dne in two days. @OSCE_RFoM @MediaSOL_BY @DJVde

Regime through @Mininform_by did not extend the permission to distribute @RTVi broadcast on the territory of #Belarus. In 2020, RTVI actively covered the Belarusian protests. The termination of its broadcasting in Belarus is equivalent to the removal of the @euronews earlier.