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  • Ways to support independent media on February 9. And every day

    Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya made a global call to support independent media and journalists on the International Day of Solidarity with Belarus (February 9).

    February 9 will mark 1.5 years of peaceful protest against violence, lawlessness, and state terror in Belarus.

    "While the resistance of millions of Belarusians continues underground in various creative forms, independent media are at the forefront of the struggle. Courageous journalists, bloggers, and influential media figures keep up working in the country and exile, despite severe repression and personal insecurity."

    We inter­viewed Belaru­sian edi­to­r­i­al offices and pre­pared a small guide on how to sup­port jour­nal­ists and the media on Feb­ru­ary 9. And on oth­er days too.

    #Stand­With­Be­larus

    Support editorial offices or journalists financially

    Mind that it is not always safe to do this in Belarus. Some media web­sites do not fea­ture dona­tion or sub­scrip­tion but­tons. Here are some cam­paigns you can donate to:

    Sup­port BAJ

    Sup­port Zerka­lo

    Sup­port Nar­o­d­naya Volia

    Sup­port Bel­sat jour­nal­ists

    Sup­port Kyky

    Sup­port The Vil­lage Belarus

    Sup­port Euro­ra­dio

    Sup­port Medi­a­Sol, a com­pa­ny that helps jour­nal­ists

     

    Send letters, telegrams, and commissary money to people in jail

    33 media rep­re­sen­ta­tives are behind bars at the moment. These are employ­ees of dif­fer­ent edi­to­r­i­al offices, but each one of them would appre­ci­ate sup­port from the out­side. For some of our col­leagues, the jail staff is set­ting up a real infor­ma­tion block­ade, ille­gal­ly restrict­ing cor­re­spon­dence. There­fore, every word of sol­i­dar­i­ty is impor­tant.

    Our tips:

    • send reg­is­tered mail

    • be sure to spec­i­fy the sender’s address and name

    • do not dis­cuss polit­i­cal issues in let­ters.

    Oth­er­wise, the let­ters have very lit­tle chance of get­ting to the recip­i­ent. The cur­rent address­es of all our col­leagues in cap­tiv­i­ty are avail­able HERE.

     

    Follow, share news, and communicate with the editors

    Most media name sta­ble com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the audi­ence, despite intim­i­da­tion and block­ing, as the main source of sup­port for them­selves. To sup­port a pub­li­ca­tion, you can fol­low it on Telegram, share news from their site and send inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion to the edi­to­r­i­al office, if you come across any­thing news­wor­thy. Use VPN if you access media web­sites from Belarus!

    Here is the col­lec­tion of the most pop­u­lar Belaru­sian media.

    1reg.by
    Belmarket.by
    Belsat.eu
    Gazetaby.info
    Gs.by
    Euroradio.fm
    Hrodna.life
    Intex-press.by
    Kyky.org
    Media-polesye.by
    Mediazona.by
    Nashaniva.com
    Novychas.online
    Nv-online.info
    Reform.by
    Sn-plus.com
    Svaboda.org
    The Vil­lage Беларусь
    Zerkalo.io

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