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The continuing crackdown on lawyers in Belarus will deprive everyone of the right to fair trial regardless of political views, D\u017amitryj \u0141aje\u016dski, a disbarred prominent Belarusian lawyer, has said in his YouTube video. Authoritarianism is difficult to reconcile with an independent legal system, he stressed, noting that ten current and former lawyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43858","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harassment of lawyers to deprive everyone of right to fair trial - lawyer | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 23, BPN. 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