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The Belarusian Helsinki Committee addressed the Special Rapporteurs on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, on the situation of human rights defenders and on the situation of human rights in Belarus with information about repression by the Belarusian authorities against independent trade unions in violation of the right to freedom of association. 

In the report, we drew attention to the fact that at the moment there are more than 40 trade union activists and leaders imprisoned for political reasons.

The Belarusian Helsinki Committee made a submission to the Special Rapporteurs on the issue of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, on the situation of human rights defenders and on the human rights situation in Belarus with information about pressure on independent trade unions from Belarusian authorities in violation of