The Belarusian Supreme Court’s decision to liquidate all Belarusian independent trade organizations – the Independent Trade Union, the Belarusian Trade Union of Radio-Electronic Industry Workers, Free Trade Union of Belarus, the Free Trade Union of Metalworkers, and the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions – is the latest attack on the freedom of the Belarusian people, an attempt to crush civil society and to protect …