In advance of the 9 August presidential election, the EU called on Belarus on Thursday 23 July to release all political activists arbitrarily detained, to guarantee them access to a lawyer, and to conduct a fair, impartial and transparent investigation in all cases.
According to a communiqué from the European External Action Service, issued during an ad hoc meeting of senior EU and Belarusian officials in Brussels, EU representatives recalled the Union’s concerns about the lack of respect...