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Two of the world's top jailers of journalists — Russia and Belarus — are responsible for imprisoning four of our Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty colleagues.

Alsu Kurmasheva, Andrey Kuznechyk, Ihar Losik, and Vladyslav Yesypenko deserve to be released immediately.

Yesterday, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was honored to host an event in solidarity with jailed journalists.

We are grateful to the 200+ people who attended and our 10 partners, including NEDemocracy, National Press Club, PEN America, Radio Free Asia, RSF and @wsj.

📸: Karla Urbina and Paige Duskie

Vladyslav Yesypenko, an Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist, remains unjustly imprisoned in Russia-occupied Crimea.

We are grateful to State Department: Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor Director for European and Eurasian Affairs Christopher Anderson for meeting with Vladyslav's wife and daughter, Kateryna and Stefania, to discuss his…

Thank you Czechia in the EU for welcoming our Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty #dienstbierfellows , Tijana and Arta, on their trip to Brussels.
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Ahead of the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, Committee to Protect Journalists is calling attention to the threats journalists around the world face — including Russia's unjust, six-month detention of our Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty colleague Alsu Kurmasheva.
cpj.org/2024/04/cpj-re…

Yesterday's European Parliament resolution called for Russia to release Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva and @wsj journalist Evan Gershkovich.

We are grateful for this recognition of our unjustly detained colleague held hostage in Putin's Russia.
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We were pleased to welcome members of a Congressional Staff Delegation to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquarters in Prague, where we discussed the vital work of our newsrooms in Ukraine and beyond.

A special thanks to CzechEmbassyDC for organizing this visit.

Shrinking seas in Central Asia are coinciding with intensityfing dust storms in the region. In the latest 'Central Asia in Focus,' Bruce Pannier explores the problem: about.rferl.org/article/centra…

'The horror began in March.'

Central Asian migrants in Russia told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Сибирь.Реалии about the increased discrimination they're facing following the Crocus City Hall attack.
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Belarus is one of the world's top jailers of journalists — the long list includes Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's own Andrey Kuznechyk and Ihar Losik.

Радыё Свабода has created a project documenting people who are imprisoned in Belarus just for being journalists and media workers.
svaboda.org/a/30943068.html

'Any email is censored. You can't describe the details there.'

Радыё Свабода journalist Aleh Hruzdzilovich presented his book documenting his imprisonment in Belarus at an event with former political prisoners and relatives of those currently jailed: svaboda.org/a/32522617.html

'If we didn't have these weapons, we would have already lost the war.”

As one of few reporters allowed to cover combat on the front lines in Ukraine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Serhii Nuzhnenko ventured deep into the Donbas to document a weary Ukrainian artillery unit.
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ICYMI: 'Sooner or later, I will walk out of here as an innocent person...Will the judges who read my sentence through gritted teeth have the courage to raise their heads?'

#FreeAlsu
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'Central Asia in Focus' by Bruce Pannier is one of the only newsletters covering the region's growing authoritarianism, evolving ties with Russia and China, relations with the Taliban, and more.

Get it in your inbox 👉 pressroom.rferl.org/z/22642

Alsu Kurmasheva, an Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist and U.S. citizen, is held hostage in Putin's Russia.

Thanks to Rights in Russia, you can write Alsu a letter of support and solidarity. Here's how: rightsinrussia.org/write-to-russi…

#FreeAlsu

ICYMI: Is Tajikistan's authoritarian government radicalizing the country's citizens?

In the latest Majlis Podcast, Bruce Pannier talks to Marius Fossum and Steve Swerdlow about Tajikistan's dire economic situation.
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Learn more about Радіо Свобода's documentary 'Silent Deportation,' which recently won the Gold Award in the 2024 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards. ⬇️

'Sooner or later, I will walk out of here as an innocent person...Will the judges who read my sentence through gritted teeth have the courage to raise their heads?'

#FreeAlsu
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