The heiress to Belarus' largest independent news outlet, Evgeniya Chernyavskaya, says her country's widening crackdown on media and opposition has imperilled freedom of speech and threatened lives. "Nobody is safe now in Belarus especially journalists," says the heiress to Tut.by, the news outlet whose survival is now fragile, after members of its team were detained after office and home raids. On May 18 authorities blocked the site after.
Hijack, arrest, torture: Belarusian journalists under attack
The grounding of a Ryanair flight on a fake bomb threat is just the latest escalation of an independent media clampdown in Belarus
25 May 2021
BY VOLHA SIAKHOVICH
Masked law enforcement officers detain a journalist during a protest by opposition supporters at Komarovsky Market in Minsk. Credit: Natalia Fedosenko/TASS/Alamy Live News
The diversion of a Ryanair plane to Minsk over the weekend on the orders of Belaruisan president Alexander Lukashenko and the subsequent detention of independent journalist Roman Protasevich is the latest incident in a clampdown on independent media in the country.
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