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Foreign experience is inapplicable for Brest authorities

2011 2011-10-04T18:11:18+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en https://spring96.org/files/images/sources/bresckivykankam.jpg The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Brest activists of political parties received an answer to their collective appeal to the deputies of the House of Representatives, which dealt with improving the law on mass events.

The appeal, which was sent to MPs in August, drew attention to the fact that under current conditions in the current Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Mass Events" citizens were deprived of their rights to freedom of assembly, meetings, street processions, demonstrations and picketing, and the planned changes to the law could cause more severe restrictions on public events. This concerns the proposal according to which "the massive presence of citizens in certain public places at a certain time in order to carry out pre-planned action or inaction ..." could be considered as a picket.

The authors of the appeal proposed the authorities to follow the example of many European countries allow holding mass actions without prior notification, (not authorization, as it is done now).

As it follows from the answer, signed by Aliaksandr Yushkevich, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, National Relations and Mass Media of the House of Representatives, MPs studied the international experience regarding the legal regulation of mass events. Yushkevich writes that “regulation of the order of events in a particular country depends on the socio-political and socio-economic situation, and is defined by the domestic policies in the State”.

What concerns the notifying order of events in Belarus, according to A. Yushkevich, the small list of unfrequented places which the authorities specified as places for mass events, “allow the local executive and administrative bodies and law-enforcement organs to maximally provide conditions for the realization of constitutional rights and freedoms citizens, public safety and public order on the streets, squares and other public places during such actions”.

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