An appeal in the European Parliament for lit candles as a gesture of solidarity towards democratic forces in Belarus has sparked a security alert.
Three Slovak centre-right MEPs on Thursday (16 March) called on their colleagues in the Strasbourg plenary to light candles in their offices, houses and apartments, ahead of the country's presidential elections on Sunday.
Zita Plestinska reminded them that several Belarusians have been using the same symbol every sixteenth day of the m...
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