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Valery Pazniakievič
Poet, bard.
Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (15-30 November 2025)
As of 30 November 2025, at least 161 cultural figures, including 34 writers, were not free – either imprisoned or in ...
Ilja Baryskievič
A Wikipedia editor aka Kazimier Lachnovič.
Belarus: Persecution for Artistic Expression
INTRODUCTION Artistic freedom and protection of cultural diversity Artistic freedom [1] is the freedom to imagine, cr...
Briefing, November 27! Banned people: How writers and journalists work in Belarus, where independent work is branded «extremism»
PEN Belarus and the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) invite international partners and media representativ...
Voice. When it exists, we have no right to be silent. A report from the discussion
This year, PEN Belarus, Viasna, BAJ, Press Club Belarus, and Free Press for Eastern Europe established the Voice of t...
Rusłan Raviaka
Journalist, translator, short story author.
Chronicle of human rights violations in the sphere of culture (1-15 November 2025)
As of 15 November 2025, at least 157 cultural figures, including 33 writers, were not free – either imprisoned or in ...
Ihar Iljaš
Journalist, philosopher and writer.
Siarzhuk Sys: “A person without a spark is like a poem without rhythm”
This interview is part of the Voice of the Freedom Generation collection, which is a living testimony to the creative...
Georgia: Latest wave of arrests condemned
PEN Belarus joins the statement of PEN International about Georgia. ‘The Georgian people have the right to peacefully...
Liubou Luniova: A government afraid of freedom instinctively reaches for the baton
This interview is part of the collection “The Voice of the Freedom Generation ” — a living testimony to the creative ...