The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Brest human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin has lodged a complaint with the Constitutional Court, appealing a decision by the city’s executive committee that imposed inadmissible restrictions on the freedom of peaceful assembly.

Baranavichy entrepreneur Mikalai Charnavus applied to the Brest Regional Court with the request to abolish the verdict of the verdict of the Baranavichy City Court, according to which the latter allegedly had no powers to consider the case concerning the illegality of the election of the Council of the local market, and returned the case for the second trial.

Former political prisoner, a member of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth" Pavel Vinahradau regularly receives administrative penalties. As a result, he can be subject to new criminal persecution.

At 8.30 a.m. on 1 May Baranavichy police detained a group of civil activists at the central railway station. The activists were heading for Minsk in order to take part in a sitting of Dzmitry Uss' initiative group. Among the detainees there were Artsiom Babei, Viachaslau Bolbat, Aliaksandr Davydau and Ryhor Hryk.

In Brest, human rights defenders held a round table to mark the beginning of the campaign "Stop 1210" aimed at the protection of freedom of peaceful assemblies.

Brest civil activists Marat Nestsiarenka and Aliaksandr Akhmach have been detained by local police, as they were distributing information materials on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and the construction of a nuclear power plant.

Brest Leninski District Court has upheld a ban on a picket applied for by local human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin.

The official website of Brest City Executive Committee contains an appeal to Brest citizens in which it is stated that April was declared the month of cleaning and planting and a city subbotnik will be held on 21 Apri..

Brest-based activist of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" Liavontski Chapurnykh applied to the UN Human Rights Committee.