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On September 30, the Supreme Court outlawed the Belarusian Helsinki Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16, BPN. Belarusian Helsinki Committee Chair Aleh Hu\u0142ak has died. The cause of death might have been a ruptured blood clot, preliminary reports say. Hu\u0142ak left Belarus and moved to Lithuania recently fearing criminal persecution linked to his human rights activities. On September 30, the Supreme Court outlawed the Belarusian Helsinki Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44952","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>Chair of Belarusian Helsinki Committee Hu\u0142ak dies aged 55 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 16, BPN. 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