19.05.2021, 10:11
Spokesman Daniel Holtgen made a statement.
The Council of Europe urges the Belarusian authorities to refrain from further pressure on the media, said the organization s spokesman
Daniel Holtgen. The recent actions against tut.by and journalists are alarming and violate the fundamental right to freedom of expression, he said, BelaPAN quoted.
On May 18th, the department of financial investigations of the State Control Committee initiated criminal proceedings against the officials of TUT BAY MEDIA under Part 2 Article 243 of the Criminal Code (evasion from taxes and fees in especially great amount).
The tut.by website has been blocked. This decision was taken by the Ministry of Information upon notice of the Prosecutor General s Office. The central office of tut.by was searched. Employees who came to work in the morning are not available; some detainees, including editor-in-chief