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New York, February 19, 2013--Belarusian authorities must stop
harassing Irina Khalip and trying to force the prominent Novaya Gazeta reporter into exile, the
Committee to Protect Journalists
border crossing charges, which were pending in late year.
In June, Irina Khalip received a package containing a severed chicken head, the latest in a
in the press today, Belarusian authorities temporarily lifted a travel ban
on Irina Khalip, prominent
journalist and reporter for the Moscow-based independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Is Irina Khalip, the prominent Belarusian journalist, free
to travel? President Aleksandr Lukashenko, whose government
Approximately 30 journalists are targeted and murdered every year, and on average, in only three of these crimes are the killers ever brought to justice. Other attacks on freedom of expression occur daily: bloggers are threatened, photographers beaten, writers kidnapped. And in those instances, justice is even more rare. Today,...
authorities should
release Pavel Sverdlov immediately and unconditionally."
In
an unrelated incident, Irina Khalip, the Minsk
correspondent for Novaya Gazeta,
received a threatening package on Friday,
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Lowlight: Following the December 2010 presidential vote, Lukashenko imprisoned prominent independent journalists Irina Khalip and Natalya Radina on fabricated charges in retaliation for reporting on post-
del 2010, Lukashenko envió a prisión a las prominentes periodistas independientes Irina Khalip y Natalya Radina por cargos inventados en relación con sus reportajes
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jailed independent reporters. Politicized courts handed suspended prison terms to prominent journalists Irina Khalip and Andrzej Poczobut. Police used brutal force against reporters who covered nationwide
