Index joins with 11 other organisations to demand the release of those detained
Joint call condemning the Belarusian regime’s raids on journalists and human rights activists
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Belarus: Human rights organisations urge the UN Human Rights Council to maintain calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Andrei Aliaksandrau
Call comes as Council receives the report of the UN special rapporteur on the situation regarding human rights in the country
Fourteen organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist and human rights defender Andrei Aliaksandrau
Former Index on Censorship staff member faces up to 15 years in prison
Belarus: Journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau faces up to 15 years in prison
Former Index staff member faces charges of high treason
Why journalists and dissidents turn to Telegram
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As you scroll through your Telegram feed, one image jumps out. It shows crowds of young Hong Kongers, all dressed in black, at a protest, holding their smartphones aloft like virtual cigarette lighters from a...
Let’s cut Lukashenko’s financial support
The president of Belarus is acting with impunity against his critics. It is time to go further than words of condemnation
Hijack, arrest, torture: Belarusian journalists under attack
The grounding of a Ryanair flight on a fake bomb threat is just the latest escalation of an independent media clampdown in Belarus
Roman Protasevich is a dissident and an activist, but above all a journalist
Belarus regime staged hijack to silence their most prominent critic
100 days in prison in Belarus: MP calls for Andrei Aliaksandrau’s release
As our former colleague spends his 100th day in detention, Christine Jardine MP joins our call for his immediate and unconditional release
We need Andrei Aliaksandrau and 254 others in Belarus back home
Lukashenko’s government has doubled down by raiding the homes and offices of activists and journalists