News on the topic: freedom of association
13.04.2011 Union of Poles in Belarus and Gazeta Wyborcza launch campaigns for release of Andrei Pachobut
The “opposition” Union of Poles in Belarus started a campaign for change of restraint to the Chair of the Main Council of the UPB, a journalist with the Polish weekly Gazeta Wyborcza Andrei Pachobut.
07.04.2011 Prison guards refuse to accept medicines for Zmitser Bandarenka
The state of health of Zmitser Bandarenka, a European Belarus coordinator, who has spent more than 3 months in the KGB jail already, is disturbing.
04.04.2011 Volunteerism Development Center denied registration
The Ministry of Justice refused to register the Volunteerism Development Center because of “a number of incorrigible violations of the legal requirements”.
29.03.2011 Court upholds closure of Avtoradio
Judge Dzmitry Alyaksandraw rejected an appeal by Avtoradio against its closure at a rehearing of the popular FM station’s case that wrapped up at the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus on Tuesday.
25.03.2011 For Freedom Homel activist arrested
Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh, Homel activist of the For Freedom movement, was detained under unascertained circumstances this morning.
25.03.2011 European Belarus activist detained
Andrei Molchan, activist of the European Belarus opposition movement, has been reportedly detained by Minsk police.
25.03.2011 Border troops detain For Freedom deputy leader
The Belarusian border troops detained Yuras Hubarevich, deputy chair of the For Freedom movement, as he was returning in his car from Lithuania.
23.03.2011 “Impregnable” Prosecutor Vasilevich
“Activities on behalf of a political party, public association, religious organization or foundation, that has failed to undergo a state registration procedure, violate the legislation of the Republic of Belarus”, repeatedly state official replies by Prosecutor General to Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski.
14.03.2011 KGB looking for European Belarus activist
Police and KGB officers are terrorizing Nadzezhda Zhorava, a disabled person, mother of Vasil Zhorau, in order to find out his location.
10.03.2011 Collective address concerning the draft law On Non-profit Organizations
On 9 March a collective address concerning the draft law On Non-profit Organizations was passed to the House of Representatives and the Council of Ministers. The document was signed by 110 NGOs of various legal forms of organization and activities, which comprise more than 270,000 members. This is the most large-scale campaign of lobbying the common interests of the Belarusian civil society organizations.
02.02.2011 Assembly of NGOs prepared remarks to draft law On Non-profitable Organizations
The Center of Legal Transformation at the Assembly of NGOs started collecting signatures under a collective address to the draft law On non-profitable organizations.
28.01.2011 "European Belarus" activist Siarhej Kazakou delivered to Akrestsina detention center
Siarhej Kazakou managed to inform his friends only that he had been detained and delivered to the Akrestsina detention center.
14.01.2011 European Belarus activist Palina Kuryianovich gets fired
Palina Kuryianovich, an activist of the European Belarus campaign, had to quit her job.
12.01.2011 Avtoradio closed down for broadcasting ads for presidential candidates
A Minsk-based radio station that broadcast campaign advertisements for opposition presidential candidates has been taken off the air due to the cancellation of its license, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
03.01.2011 Pavel Yukhnevich had to meet New Year in delinquents' isolation center
After the search in the apartment of the photo journalist Yuliya Darashkevich, her husband, an activist of the European Belarus Pavel Yukhnevich was taken to KGB, allegedly for an interrogation. There a report for participation in the protest action that had taken place in the center of Minsk on 19 December was drawn up and the activist was taken to the Maskouski District Court of Minsk.
