On May 18, the Belarusian authorities raided the country s largest independent news portal: conducted searches, detained employees and partners, seized equipment and blocked the TUT.BY website. Yulia Chernyavskaya, the retired widow of portal founder Yuri Zisser, was arrested and subsequently admitted to and discharged from hospital. Her current whereabouts are unknown. This is yet another assault on independent journalism and freedom of expression in Belarus.
What is known about the TUT.by case? What is happening in Belarus regarding journalists and the media environment? What were the detention conditions of TUT.BY journalist Ekaterina Borisevich in prison?
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