The Peer Review

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. - Henry Anatole Grunwald

(translated) Young people who protested against the pressure on independent journalists, gag statues, sculptures and hanging banners reading: “Belarus is forbidden to speak the truth,” “No - pressure on the independent press,” “I do not want to shut down independent sites!”

A similar action took place in the Ukrainian Lutsk, the website “Freedom Fight”.

These days Young European Federalists hold a pan-European campaign for the freedom of speech in Belarus. In order to draw public attention to the numerous human rights violations in Belarus, the gag statues throughout Europe.

(via quietniss)

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