Belarus blocks top news site in ‘full-scale assault’ on free press
udf.byThe Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said the attack on Tut.by was ‘murder of independent media’. Photograph: Natalia Fedosenko/Tass 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.