najväčšie bieloruské internetové noviny tut.by nepísali, čo sa Lukašenkovi hodilo. Jednoducho ich vypol. Zablokovali stránku, na ktorú chodilo viac ako tri milióny Bielorusov, mnohí redaktori skončili vo väzbe a päť novinárov je nezvestných.

Slobodné médiá sú zárukou slobody a demokracie. Preto ich chcú autokrati umlčať. Aj my si pamätáme, aké to je. Preto dnes stojíme pri našich bieloruských kolegoch a vyzývame predstaviteľov Slovenska, ale aj Európskej únie, aby urobili všetko, čo môžu na ich ochranu a záchranu.

Beata Balogová, šéfredaktorka SME

Peter Bárdy, šéfredaktor aktuality.sk

Matúš Kostolný, šéfredaktor Denník N

Jakub Prokeš, šéfredaktor Pravda

Ivana Mandáková, šéfredaktorka Plus Jeden Deň

Marcela Šimková, šéfredaktorka Hospodárske noviny

Peter Palovič,  šéf spravodajstva Rádio Express

Michaela Terenzáni, šéfredaktorka The Slovak Spectator

Liszka Györgyi, šéfredaktorka Vasárnap

Attila Lovász, riaditeľ Sekcie národnostného vysielania RTVS

Marián Kolár, šéfredaktor TASR

Lukáš Diko, šéfredaktor Investigatívne centrum Jána Kuciaka

Henrich Krejča, riaditeľ spravodajstva a publicistiky Markíza

Štefan Hríb, šéfredaktor .týždeň

Michal Pobeha, šéfredaktor SITA

Martin Hanus, šéfredaktor Postoj

Vahram Chuguryan, riaditeľ sekcie spravodajstva a publicistiky RTVS

Júlia Kováčová, šéfredaktorka, Nový čas

Alexej Fulmek, predseda Asociácia tlačených a digitálnych médií.

Slovak journalists: We stand by our Belarusan colleagues

 In reaction to recent developments in Belarus, the editors-in-chief of major Slovak media, and the Association of Print and Digital Media, have issued this joint declaration: 

Our colleague Roman Pratasevic was forcibly removed from an airplane under the pretence of a bomb scare. The Belarusan dictator Alexander Lukashenka wished his arrest so much, that he ordered a fighter jet to divert the commercial flight on route to Vilnius to Minsk. Pratasevic now faces the threat of torture, imprisonment, and possible death penalty. Only because he wanted to write truthfully about Belarus. 

The biggest independent news portal in Belarus tut.by dared to be critical of Lukashenka. And he just shut them down. Their website, visited by over three million Belarusans, was blocked. Many reporters ended up in jail. Five journalists are missing. 

Free media are a guarantee of freedom and democracy. That is why autocrats try to silence them. We, too, remember, what it is like. That is why today, we stand by our Belarusan colleagues and ask the representatives of Slovakia and the European Union, to do everything in their power to protect and save them.

Beata Balogová, editor-in-chief, SME

Peter Bárdy, editor-in-chief, aktuality.sk

Matúš Kostolný, editor-in-chief, Denník N

Jakub Prokeš, editor-in-chief, Pravda

Ivana Mandáková, editor-in-chief, Plus Jeden Deň

Marcela Šimková, editor-in-chief, Hospodárske noviny

Peter Palovič, editor-in-chief, Rádio Express

Michaela Terenzáni, editor-in-chief, The Slovak Spectator

Liszka Györgyi, editor-in-chief, Vasárnap

Attila Lovász, director of minority broadcasting at the public RTVS broadcaster, 

Marián Kolár, editor-in-chief of the state news agency TASR

Lukáš Diko, editor-in-chief, Ján Kuciak Investigative Centre

Henrich Krejča, director for news and reporting, TV Markíza

Štefan Hríb, editor-in-chief, .týždeň

Michal Pobeha, editor-in-chief, SITA news agecy

Martin Hanus, editor-in-chief, Postoj

Vahram Chuguryan, director of news and reporting at the public RTVS broadcaster

Júlia Kováčová, editor-in-chief, Nový čas

Alexej Fulmek, chairman, Association of Print and Digital media.