The Supreme Court’s dissolution of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) is a political decision culminating a crackdown on independent media in Belarus that began more than a year ago, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF), calling for international solidarity with the country’s persecuted journalists.
President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime dissolved Belarus’s only independent journalists’ association on 27 August.
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