EFJ

Six years on from the fraud­u­lent Belaru­sian elec­tions of 9 August 2020, the crack­down on press free­dom in Belarus has inten­si­fied, with 21 jour­nal­ists cur­rent­ly impris­oned and those in exile fac­ing intim­i­da­tion. The Inter­na­tion­al and Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tions of Jour­nal­ists (IFJ-EFJ) joins their affil­i­ate, the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (BAJ), in call­ing for an end to the crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of jour­nal­ists, […]

The U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment (USAID), one of the largest offi­cial aid agen­cies in the world, has been instruct­ed to stop projects fol­low­ing a 90-day for­eign aid freeze imposed by Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio. The mea­sure affects dozens of inde­pen­dent media out­lets in more than 30 coun­tries, deprived of U.S. sup­port pro­grams to strength­en […]