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The Belarusian authorities should immediately release the journalists and stop blocking the media. The ministries of foreign affairs of Ukraine, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic condemned the blocking of the tut.by portal, naviny.online reports. “We condemn the blocking by the Belarusian authorities of the independent Belarusian media resource tut.by and the persecution of its journalists. Tut.by is known for its high standards of journalism and objective reporting. We call on the Belarusian authorities to stop attacks on freedom of speech,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko wrot...

Belarus shuts down largest independent news portal, arrests staff May 19, 2021 Authorities in Belarus this week intensified their repression of independent media, shutting down the country’s largest news portal, TUT.by. The largest and most influential independent news portal in Belarus, TUT.by, has been shut down by the country’s authorities in their latest crackdown on journalists in the country. TUT.by said law enforcement officials had visited its offices around the country on May 18, seizing computers, telephones and bank cards. According to Kirill Voloshin, one of the online portal...

19.05.2021, 10:11 Spokesman Daniel Holtgen made a statement. The Council of Europe urges the Belarusian authorities to refrain from further pressure on the media, said the organization's spokesman Daniel Holtgen. "The recent actions against tut.by and journalists are alarming and violate the fundamental right to freedom of expression," he said, BelaPAN quoted. On May 18th, the department of financial investigations of the State Control Committee initiated criminal proceedings against the officials of TUT BAY MEDIA under Part 2 Article 243 of the Criminal Code (evasion from taxes and fees in...