awards

“Processes” can be watched in English on YouTube.

Belsat TV journalist Darya Chultsova, released on September 3 after two years in a penal colony in Belarus, was honored at the PRIX Europa-2022 festival in Potsdam. She was awarded along with Katsyaryna Andreyeva a year ago, but she was only able to receive her statuette now – two months after leaving Lukashenka’s prison.

Earlier, the film won the grand prize at a South Korean film festival.

Andrzej Poczobut, a Hrodna-based reporter for the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and Belarusian political prisoner of Polish descent, was awarded the title of Journalist of the Year 2021 at the Polish journalistic contest Grand Press. For the first time, he got the title of the Journalist of the Year in 2011. Then he was a prisoner of conscience too.

Some say Belarusian journalists set an example to Ukrainian journalists on how to fight for their rights

Belarusians will receive this award for the first time in history

The film tells about the role of Syarhei and Svyatlana Tsikhanouski in the Belarusian revolution.

Imprisoned Belsat TV contributors Katsyaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsova have been honoured as European Journalists of the Year 2021 at Europe’s largest annual tri-medial festival and competition PRIX EUROPA.

About 200 media representatives signed up for their nomination

After two rounds of voting, the German civic initiative AnStifter awarded Belarusian political prisoner Maryia Kalesnikava with the 2021 Stuttgart Peace Prize.