; Whereas, since the start of Russia’s full-scale offensive against Ukraine, Reporters Without Borders has documented attacks directly targeting journalists wearing a Press armband, including the— (1) killing of 8 journalists and media workers; (2) torture by electric shock, beatings, and mock executions of journalists working for the international press; (3) targeted kidnappings of journalists and their families in occupied regions of Ukraine to put pressure on their reporting; and (4) deliberate attacks targeting media facilities demonstrating that the information is in itself an essential target of Russian forces in the conflict; Whereas the Belarusian regime has conducted sweeping attacks against the press since President Alexander Lukashenko’s fraudulent election in August 2020, with journalists and media workers harassed, assaulted, imprisoned (34 of them as of April 6, 2023, according to Reporters Without Borders), or otherwise retaliated against for their work, and has stripped the accreditation of and detained numerous journalists to suppress independent information and freedom of expression, including— (1) Katsiaryna Andreyeva, a correspondent with Poland-based independent broadcaster Belsat TV, who was serving a 2-year prison term for filming live broadcast of the violent dispersal of a protest against President Lukashenko in November 2020, and was sentenced to 8 additional years in prison on treason charges in July 2022; (2) Ksenia Lutskina, a former correspondent for the state broadcaster Belteleradio, who was sentenced to 8 years in prison on charges of conspiring to seize state power in September 2022, and Lutskina has a preexisting brain tumor that has grown in detention and is not receiving appropriate medical care; (3) Maryna Zolatava, chief editor of the independent news website Tut.by, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of incitement to hatred and distributing materials calling for actions aimed at harming national security in March 2023