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Belarus: Radical Crackdown Against The Free Word

Belarus: Radical Crackdown Against The Free Word

The European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the European Writers Council (EWC) call on the governments of Europe and the international community to demonstrate firm support for the democracy movement in Belarus […]

CEATL joins the EWC in support of democracy and human rights in Belarus

CEATL joins the EWC in support of democracy and human rights in Belarus

Over the past 12 months, an unprecedented wave of searches and detentions has been targeting independent cultural and human rights organizations in Belarus. On 14 July the Directorate ‘Combating Organized Crime and Corruption’ of the Belarusian Ministry of the Interior conducted a nationwide ‘radical cleansing’ operation […]

Belarus: Radical Crackdown Against The Free Word

Total Crackdown of Belarusian Culture in January, 2021

According to the data collected and analyzed by the Belarusian PEN Centre, since August 2020 till the end of the year, the number of cases of repressions in the sphere of culture in Belarus had increased rapidly and reached 568 […]