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  • Belarusian journalists and BAJ won Free Media Awards

    The winners of the Free Media Awards were awarded in Hamburg, all this year's winners being Belarusians. The winners were announced back in August. These are Katsiaryna Barysevich, Katsiaryna Andreyeva, Daria Chultsova, Natallia Lubneuskaya, the TUT.BY media outlet, and the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

    On Novem­ber 1, a solemn award cer­e­mo­ny was held in Ger­many, attend­ed by the edi­tors of the inde­pen­dent TV chan­nel Natal­lia and Dzmit­ry Yaho­raus, jour­nal­ists Natal­lia Lub­neuskaya and Kat­siary­na Bary­se­vich, TUT.BY rep­re­sen­ta­tive Ali­ak­san­dr Pushkin and chair­man of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists Andrei Bas­tunets.

    Free Media Awards are usu­al­ly giv­en to jour­nal­ists from dif­fer­ent coun­tries, but this year an excep­tion was made.

    The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists has been award­ed the Free Media Awards for tire­less work in sup­port of jour­nal­ists’ rights. Togeth­er with its part­ner orga­ni­za­tion Reporters With­out Bor­ders, since the begin­ning of the protests in Belarus in August 2020, the BAJ has doc­u­ment­ed and made pub­lic numer­ous vio­la­tions of media free­dom and repres­sion against inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists. In addi­tion, the BAJ offers assis­tance to jour­nal­ists and is an impor­tant source of infor­ma­tion for inter­na­tion­al media.

    The Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists was nom­i­nat­ed for the award by the Nor­we­gian Helsin­ki Com­mit­tee.

    Since 2016, the Free Media Awards have been pre­sent­ed to inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists, edi­tors, and media plat­forms in Rus­sia, Ukraine, Azer­bai­jan, Belarus, Geor­gia, and Arme­nia.

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