Svetlagorsk regional consumer society annulated its contract on selling a non-governmental newspaper “The Region News” in its stores. It happened after Baliaslau Pirshtuk, the head of the regional executive committee, saw the newspaper in a provincial store.

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We, delegates to the Human Rights House Network’s annual meeting express our deep concern about the Belarusian authorities’ campaign to destroy civil society in Belarus. The campaign appears to be a systematic attempt to silence human rights defenders and prevent the development of a pluralist democratic society.

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Christos Pourgourides, a member of the PACE legal committee, will be in Minsk on November 5-8. As Vahram Abadjan, the vice chairman of the ESCO Office in Minsk, said to “The Observer”.

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The Russian Committee for Civil Rights addressed a letter to Alyaksandar Lukashenka in support of Belarusian rights’ defending organizations. A copy of the letter was directed to the Russian President Uladzimir Putsin. The press service of the liquidated Rights’ Defending Center “Viasna” informed BelaPAN.

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