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Activists of the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union of Kyrgyzstan have demanded that Belarus stop persecuting independent trade unions.

Mr Fedynich, the Chairman of the REP Trade Union, has commented on the situation with searches of union activists on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.

Gennady Fedynich says that should repressions against activists continue, the REP Trade Union will call on the international trade union community to impose sanctions on Belarusian authorities.

Roman Burenko, the leader of the REP's group in the city of Pinsk, was outraged, when he saw Lukashenko's portrait in the office of Judge Kovalchuk in Brest, along with the state coat of arms and the banner.

In Bobruisk, activists of the REP Trade Union have applied to the chairman of the city executive committee asking to sanction collection of signatures in support of the independent trade union.

In late 2017, Nikolai Novikov, an activist of the REP Trade Union, sent an appeal to the Mozyr District Executive Committee (accompanied by the signatures he had collected), trying to force the authorities to properly equip the pedestrian crossings over the railway line.

Across Belarus, REP activists lodged 17 applications for holding pickets in support of their trade union – none of them was approved. Until under the Law "On Mass Events" bureaucrats are entitled to ban or allow people to publicly express their opinion, it will never be possible in Belarus to…

The parents of Victoria Popchenya, the schoolgirl, who died at potato harvesting, have received, under the court judgement, 15,000 roubles as moral harm compensation from Molodechno School No. 11.