BAJ launched an animation project to tell the world about political prisoners of journalists

Word Behind Bars is a video project by the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists. It is a series of ani­mat­ed videos about jour­nal­ists in prison in Belarus.

 

 

 

 

 

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Публикация от About polit­i­cal pris­on­ers jour­nal­ists (@word_behind_bars)

Jour­nal­ists in Belarus receive real jail sen­tences for their work.

Jour­nal­ist Darya Chultso­va spent two years behind bars for a stream. Edi­tor Olga Loiko spent almost a year in prison for telling Belaru­sians about pol­i­tics and the econ­o­my. Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Alexan­der Vasyukovich was put on tri­al for his cov­er­age of the protests and spent three months behind bars. Fear­ing fur­ther per­se­cu­tion, they were all forced to leave Belarus.

The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists calls on col­leagues, part­ners, and orga­ni­za­tions world­wide to sup­port the action in sol­i­dar­i­ty with impris­oned jour­nal­ists in Belarus.

BAJ calls on jour­nal­ists around the world to sup­port the sol­i­dar­i­ty action! You can print por­traits of impris­oned Belaru­sian media work­ers, take pic­tures with them in out­stand­ing places in your city (out­side Belarus) and post them on social media using the hash­tags #СвабодуЖурналістам and #BecauseThe­Jour­nal­ist. Don’t for­get to send them to office@baj.media , intercomm@baj.media or Insta­gram @bag.media.by.