Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Belarusian investigative journalist Siarhei Satsuk talks about difficulties of covering Covid-19 pandemic in Belarus, after President Lukashenka's crackdown on the country's independent media and the personal costs he had to pay.

As of November 2020, Satsuk, who edits the online newspaper Yezhednevnik and is well known for his investigative reporting on Belarus’ healthcare system, is facing up to ten years in prison for an editorial casting doubt on the official Covid-19 statistics and criticizing an order issued by President Alexander Lukashenko to “deal with” media outlets that are “sowing panic” about the epidemic. The government’s already constant harassment of bloggers and reporters for independent media outlets has been stepped up as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

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This presentation was recorded and broadcast as part of the 'CIJ Logan Symposium: Collective Intelligence', which took place online on 16-19 Nov 2020.
tcij.org/logan-symposium/collective-intelligence/programme

The CIJ Logan Symposium is a biennial event organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and made possible thanks to the support of the Reva & David Logan Foundation.
tcij.org/logan-symposium
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism
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Twitter: @cijournalism
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The Reva & David Logan Foundation
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