News on the topic: foreign travel restrictions
10.06.2010 Two more categories of citizens to be subject to foreign travel restrictions
On 10 June, a press conference of Dzmitry Leuchanka, Chairperson of the passport work and foreign travel department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, took place in Minsk.
05.08.2009 Foreign travel restrictions unlawfully applied to ‘Young Front’ activist Andrei Tsianiuta
On 4 August, Young Front activist from Homel Andrei Tsianiuta received a notice by mail on temporary restriction to leave Belarus.
04.08.2009 FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen refused in receiving Belarusian visa
Souhayr Belhassen, President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has been denied Belarusian entry visa in Belarusian consulate in Paris.
15.07.2009 Leader of Barysau branch of BPF Party banned to travel abroad
The Belarusian border guards didn’t let Siarhei Salash, leader of the BPF branch in Barysau, for a Minsk–Frankfurt flight.
13.04.2009 Information Ministry rules that ‘Astravetski Vesnik’ must be destroyed
‘The copies of Astravetski Vesnik must be destroyed’, ruled the deputy minister of information Ihar Laptsionak.
02.02.2009 Office of Prosecutor General refuses to exclude Anatol Liabedzka from ‘black list’
The Office of the Prosecutor General refused to exclude the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka from the list of the persons restricted for foreign traveling.
10.12.2008 Political activists who are banned to travel abroad bring complaints to Lukashenka
The protest rally of oppositionists who are banned to leave the country has taken place in Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk today.
06.10.2008 Authorities extend ‘black lists’
Some activists of the democratic movement have faced with foreign travel restrictions and the surnames of some more have been introduced into the lists for being searched on the border. The persons to whom such measures are applied cannot receive an answer about the reasons.
06.10.2008 Foreign actresses are denied entry to Belarus on political grounds
American actress and singer Stephanie Pan and Australian actress Esther Mugambi, who arrived in Minsk on invitation of the Belarusian Free Theatre, were detained at Minsk-2 airport on 2 October. Belarusian border guards said to the actresses they were on the list of banned to enter Belarus.
06.06.2008 Travel restrictions concern about 260 000 citizens
The database of the restricted to travel abroad persons of the border service contains about 260 000 people.
16.05.2008 Artur Finkevich in the list of restricted from traveling abroad
One of the Young Front leaders restricted from leaving Belarus since 14 May.
15.05.2008 Foreign travel restrictions to Artur Finkevich
In the morning of 13 May, when the Young Front deputy head Artur Finkevich was driving in a car with his colleagues to the Belarusian-Lithuanian border (Kamenny Loh), the Belarusian customs officers tried not to allow him to cross the border. They explained his name was in the list of temporally restricted to leave Belarus. One of the border crossing officers took a personal decision to permit Finkevich to cross the border.
08.05.2008 Student Aleh Hrubich not let abroad
Aleh Hrubich, first-year student of the faculty of Belarusian history and cultural anthropology of the European Humanities University came from Vilnius to Minsk on holidays, but didn’t manage to return back. The border guards took him off the train without explaining anything and made him wait for five hours. Then he was taken to Minsk for ‘further discrimination’.
