30 November 2001
Social Democratic party activists demonstrate in Brest in support of local independent newspaper
About twenty people, mostly members of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party, demonstrated at an empty stadium on the outskirts of Brest on November 29 to express their support for the local independent newspaper Brestsky Kuryer.
Brestsky Kuryer is having trouble getting printed at Brest's state-run printery and has even had to print a recent issue in Russia following an official warning from Belarus' State Committee on the Press for publishing a statement "on behalf of unregistered organizations."
Local activists of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) and the Belarusian Social Democratic Party originally planned to picket the printery, but the city government named the remote soccer stadium as the only place where they could demonstrate legally.
The BHC plans to stage another picket in support of the newspaper at the same stadium on November 30.
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