International broadcasting, internet freedom, and access to information in belarus

Section 5 of the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 (Public Law 109–480; 22 U.S.C. 5811 note) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) By striking “(a) sense of congress; (B) in paragraph (4), by striking and at the end; (C) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: and advocate for the release of journalists that are detained by political reasons; and; and (D) by adding at the end the following: (6) the United States should also support independent media outlets and other sources of information in providing accurate and truthful information about Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine, and the illegitimate Lukashenka regime’s complicity in Russia’s crimes of aggression.; and (2) by striking subsection (b).