Belarus has ordered the closure of the country’s largest independent journalists’ organization as a crackdown on media and civil society intensifies following last year’s disputed presidential election.
Protests in Belarus
RFE/RL: Belarus closes journalists’ association amid ongoing crackdown on media
Secretary General and Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Christophe Deloire (C), activists pose with photos of detained Belarus journalists to protest against the arbitrary detention of nearly twenty reporters, at the Lithuanian-Belarus border in Salcininkai, Lithuania on May 27, 2021.
