2009 Courage in Journalism Award Winner Iryna Khalip has received new threats to her life, including a warning that she “will meet with Anna Politkovskaya,” the murdered Novaya Gazeta reporter and 2002 Courage Award winner.
Threats to Khalip surfaced while she was working on a complicated investigation into the case of Emmanuel Zeltser, an American lawyer who spent 18 months in a Belarusian jail before being released after the intervention of the American Embassy in Belarus.