News on the topic: legislation
24.10.2007 Minister of Education Calls Classic Belarusian Language “Unlawful”
Today the Chamber of Representatives passed the Law “About Rules of Belarusian Orthography and Punctuation” in the first reading.
16.10.2007 Belarusians will not be able to complain to Alexander Lukashenka
On October 15th the President of Belarus signed edict # 498 “About additional measures of the work with appeals of citizens and legal entities”.
25.09.2007 Political Parties Face Closure
The Ministry of Justice accused the political parties of failure to create the required number of organizational structures.
20.09.2007 Supreme Court Upholds Registration Denial to Movement for Freedom
On September 20th, judge of the Supreme Court rejected an appeal against the justice ministry’s refusal to register the Movement for Freedom led by former presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich.
20.09.2007 Chairman of the Constitutional Court: No One Cancelled Responsibility for Disrespect for Belarusian Language
“No one cancelled responsibility for disrespect for the state language”, -- Ryhor Vasilevich, chairman of the Constitutional Court, stated on September 18th, in Minsk during seminar “Facilitating wider application of international standards in the sphere of human rights in the judicial process in Belarus”.
