Doesn't the lawyer ofthe Biaroza District Executive Committee watch changes in the legislation?
Biaroza human rights
defenders are unable to enter into a contract for the serving of
their picket on 10 October by the Biaroza District Police Department.
They received a denial signedby the head of the DPD Andrei
Leaniuk. He stated that such a contract could be signed only after
the implementation of the requirements, stated inSection 5.8 of the
Ruling of the Council of Ministers No. 207 of 2012.
In
paragraph 5 of the Ruling it is stated that the district executive
committee is to send a copy of the application for a picket to the
police within one day after the registration of the application.
After this, the police inspect the area where the event would take
place, and then can make its suggestions to the district executive
committee for two days.
The head of the DPD advised the
applicants to apply to the district executive committee and register
their application there.
However, the application to the
executive committee was filed on 25 September together with the
application for the service contract with the police. The application
was registered at the executive committee. It is unclear why it
wasn't sent to the police, as demanded by the Ruling.
Moreover, according
to the ruling No. 138 of the Biaroza District Executive Committee,
adopted in 2010, those who apply for pickets are also required to
attach the service contracts to their applications.
The
Biaroza District Hospital didn't conclude a service agreement for the
4 August picket, as far as it is not described in the documents of
the Ministry of Health Care and there is no price list for it. At the
same time, the chief physician of the Baranavichy hospital enters
into such agreements without any problems.
One thing is clear
from such actions of the authorities: they are indifferent to their
work and lack professionalism. Another conclusion is that it is
impossible to hold a mass event or a small picket in Belarus.
