Belarus blocks top news site in ‘full-scale assault’ on free press
by Sarah Johnson from World news | The Guardian on (#5J0NM)
Widely read Tut.by news site taken offline in latest attack on media freedom, say human rights groups
A leading news site in Belarus has been taken offline and its journalists interrogated by government officials in what human rights campaigners are calling a full-scale assault" on the right to freedom of expression in the country.
Tut.by, a news site read by more than 40% of Belarusian internet users, has been blocked and its editors questioned after their offices and houses were raided by authorities.
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