This may be our last chance before the political terror in Russia escalates to Stalinist dimensions and the only hope of lasting peace in Europe is gone for a long time.
Authorities in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, have shut down the Knihazbor independent publishing house, the organization's director Henadz Vinyarski said on Facebook on October 29, amid an ongoing crackdown on media freedoms.
Former Uzbek lawmaker Rasul Kusherbaev wrote on Telegram on October 30 that police in Tashkent briefly detained more than 100 people after they gathered in the center of the Uzbek capital a day earlier to express support for Palestinians in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
Imprisoned Russian politicians along with other activists are holding a one-day hunger strike on October 30 to honor political prisoners as residents of towns and cities in several Russian regions marked the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression.