On Monday 6 February, the United Nations special adviser on the human rights situation in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, asked the European Union to persuade the authorities to allow Belarussian civil society to participate more in the political process.
"The EU is in a unique position (...) to persuade the authorities that the situation will not improve without the inclusion of civil society", he said at a hearing at the European Parliament's sub-committee on human rights.
Haraszti would also...