MINSK — Financial police in Belarus have launched a probe against the country’s largest independent online media outlet, Tut.by, another sign of the escalating crackdown on the country’s pro-democracy movements and free media.
RFE/RL: Independent news site in Belarus raided as crackdown escalates
(FILES) In this file photo taken on Feb. 12, 2019 Marina Zolotova, editor-in-chief of news portal tut.by, attends a hearing over the so-called BelTA case, a case charging a number of Belarus' journalists with an unauthorized access to the state-run BelTA news agency's feed, at a court in Minsk. - Security agents in Belarus on May 18, 2021 searched the offices of the ex-Soviet republic's main independent news site Tut.by and the homes of several of its journalists, the site's editor said. Tut.by's editor-in-chief Marina Zolotova told AFP that representatives of the state control committee's financial investigations department searched her home and the homes of several of her employees, also noting that "representatives of security agencies also came to the newsroom".
