In a little over two years, the team at Tut.by have seen their news outlet go from being one of the most read in Belarus to being labeled an “extremist” organization whose staff are equated with criminals. Currently five of the media outlet’s journalists are standing trial in a case that many analysts see as…
With a 'mission to report the truth,' journalists from popular Belarus news outlet keep reporting even as Minsk shutters their website and puts colleagues on trial
Five employees of what used to be authoritarian Belarus's largest independent news outlet went on trial Monday in Minsk, facing several charges including tax evasion and "inciting enmity", a rights group said. The outlet Tut.by covered large-scale protests in 2020 that erupted after President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a sixth term in office in a contested…
Outlet Tut.by, which covered large-scale anti-government protests in 2020, faces several charges including tax evasion and ‘inciting enmity,’ a rights group said
Following the fraudulent presidential election in Belarus on 9 August 2020, journalists have faced hundreds of arrests and detentions. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) join their Belarusian affiliate, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), in condemning the indiscriminate repression by the regime of dictator Alexander Lukashenko. The IFJ/EFJ and BAJ demand the immediate release of the 30 journalists and media workers currently imprisoned in Belarus.