How do you survive as a journalist in a country ranked worse than Iran on press freedom and worse than Zimbabwe on human rights? In the lead up to next month’s Belarusian presidential elections, exiled reporter Olga Birukova talks to Index on Censorship about her experience as a young journalist
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Jude Law, Ian McKellen and Samuel West take to the stage in support of Belarus Free Theatre
5 December 2010
“When people are being kidnapped and killed, then you have to take action to change things in your country” (Natalia Koliada, co-founder of Belarus Free Theatre).
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Take That star Howard Donald has seen a superinjunction against an ex-girlfriend lifted. Is this another nail in the coffin for these restrictive measures, asks Mark Lewis
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The Zimbabwean government has issued an arrest warrant for exiled editor Wilf Mbanga. Here he describes the charge against him and the dire state of free expression in Zimbabwe
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