London calling. Anti-censorship activists took part in Solidarity Marathon for Belarusian Journalists

Its activists par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Sol­i­dar­i­ty Marathon for Impris­oned Belaru­sian Jour­nal­ists.  Cen­sor­ship cam­paign­ers took pho­tos of jailed reporters to express sol­i­dar­i­ty with them and their rel­a­tives. For instance, the organization’s leader, Ruth Ander­son, held up a pic­ture of Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau, an acquain­tance of Index on Censorship’s team.

More­over, the British group start­ed its own ini­tia­tive titled “Let­ters from Lukashenko’s Pris­on­ers.” It gath­ers data, pic­tures, and state­ments from let­ters writ­ten by polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, like Kat­siary­na Andree­va and oth­ers.

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 or intercomm@baj.media.

#СвабодуЖурналістам

#BecauseThe­Jour­nal­ist

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