# Remembering Pavel Sheremet, IPFA honoree, friend to CPJ, and hard-nosed journalist

Committee to Protect Journalists, 2016-07

- Address: https://cpj.org/2016/07/remembering-pavel-sheremet-ipfa-honoree-friend-to/
- Kind: reporting
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [Belarus jails journalist Pavel Sheremet over his reporting for Russian television station ORT](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1997-by-sheremet-imprisoned-for-ort-reporting)
- [Claim 768: CPJ said the same Belarusian authorities had imprisoned Sheremet over investigative journalism he had done for the Russian television channel ORT.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/768)
- [Claim 769: CPJ said the same Belarusian authorities also banned Sheremet from reporting at one point and forbade him from traveling to the West for a year.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/769)
- [Claim 770: Pavel Sheremet was named a CPJ International Press Freedom awardee in 1998.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/770)
- [Claim 771: For weeks, Sheremet and CPJ pressed authorities in Belarus for an exit visa, without which he could not leave Minsk to travel to the United States for the award ceremony.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/771)

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