Event

Journalism behind bars – the Belarusian crisis

Date
16 Jun 2021
Time
13:00 UK time
Speakers
Volha Siakhovich
Series
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
Audience
Public
Cost
Free
Booking
Required
In the span of three months in 2020, Belarusian and foreign journalists were arrested more than 310 times in the line of duty. As of April 2021, 12 journalists remain behind bars. Volha Siakhovich is a legal expert and human rights campaigner for the Belarusian Association of Journalists. She will tell us about the current climate, and what the international journalism community can do to bring attention to it.