Iryna Chalip

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Iryna Chalip ( Belarusian Ірына Халіп , Russian Ирина Владимировна Халип ; born November 12, 1967 in Minsk ) is an opposition Belarusian journalist . She is the wife of the arrested Belarusian presidential candidate from 2010 Andrei Sannikau .

Life

Chalip studied journalism and began her journalistic career in Soviet times. In the mid-1990s she worked for the Sovetskaya Belarus. She was the deputy editor-in-chief of the Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta newspaper , which was discontinued in 2006. Since 2000 she has been reporting as a correspondent from Minsk for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper . She exposed cases of corruption and election fraud. She has been arrested several times, and two criminal proceedings have been brought against her for insulting the Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka . Chalip was arrested again on the evening of December 19, 2010, along with her husband, after a demonstration against fraud in the 2010 presidential elections in Belarus . She was released in late January 2011 and placed under house arrest. In May 2011, Chalip was sentenced to two years in prison. However, this judgment was overturned on July 19, 2013 by a Minsk court.

Iryna Chalip is mother of one son.

Awards

Iryna Chalip has received several international awards for her work, including the Henri Nannen Prize 2005 "for her courageous fight for press freedom in Belarus". In 2009 she received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation. In 2012 she received the Hermann Kesten Prize . Her name is a beacon of resistance in Belarus, according to the explanation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At least 72 hours . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 22, 2010
  2. ↑ Barbara Örtel: Dangerous Legacy . In: the daily newspaper , December 14, 2009
  3. ↑ Speech ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Joschka Fischer on the occasion of the award of the Henri Nannen Prize  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesregierung.de
  4. ↑ Police officers kidnap reporter during interview . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 20, 2010
  5. ↑ Belarus releases government critics In: Schwäbische Zeitung January 29, 2011
  6. ^ Lukashenko critic sentenced to two years in prison In: stern.de , May 16, 2011
  7. ↑ I will not submit to any censorship. Interview with the Belarusian journalist . In: FAZ , July 23, 2013, page 31
  8. ^ ZDF foreign journal from January 12, 2011
  9. ↑ Press release on the award of the Henri Nannen Prize ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. May 17, 2005  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.henri-nannen-preis.de
  10. ↑ Speech on the presentation of the Courage in Journalism Award ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iwmf.org
  11. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the PEN Center Germany @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pen-deutschland.de
personal data
SURNAME Chalip, Iryna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Халип, Ирина Владимировна (Russian spelling); Халіп, Ірына (Belarusian spelling); Chalip, Irina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk