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Friday, 02 July 2021
** Fourteen organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist and human rights defender Andrei Aliaksandrau
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Index on Censorship and 13 other human rights, freedom of expression, media freedom, and journalists’ organisations unreservedly condemn the arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of human rights defender and journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau, who is now facing up to 15 years in prison on baseless charges of “treason to the state”. Read our joint statement ([link removed]) .
** Former editor Jo Glanville talks about working with Andrei Aliaksandrau
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Andrei was a key part of Index’s team in London from 2012 to 2014, bringing his expertise, his insights and his great sense of irony to the publication’s coverage of Belarus and the region. He also embraced British culture, loving pubs and beer and Liverpool FC. Read what our former editor Jo Glanville has to say ([link removed]) about Andrei and the charges he faces here.
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** Myanmar keeps it poets locked up despite prisoner release
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Relatives wait in front of Insein prison for the release of prisoners who were arrested since the February military coup. Photo: Santosh Krl / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Alamy
Myanmar’s military authorities this week began to release more than 2,000 people who had been jailed as part of the protests against the country’s military coup in February. Those released included journalists, actors and other celebrities. However, the regime has been targeting the country's poets and some remain in prison despite the release, writes Mark Frary ([link removed]) .
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** Watch: Don't SLAPP the messenger
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Why abusive legal threats and actions against journalists must be stopped. Watch the event again here ([link removed])
Bill Browder, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign (chair)
Annelie Östlund, financial journalist
Herman Grech, Editor in chief of Times of Malta
Justin Borg Barthet, Senior lecturer at University of Aberdeen
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