News on the topic: freedom of expression
15.03.2013 Court confirms that ruling of Vitsebsk City Executive Committee is unimplementable
Vitsebsk activists were again trying to implement the ruling of Vitsebsk City Executive Committee "On holding mass events in Vitsebsk", according to which the organizers of mass events had to conclude service agreements with the public utilities, police and the central polyclinic.
14.03.2013 Klimavichy District Executive Committee refuses to authorize Freedom Day picket
Klimavichy activists of "Tell the Truth" received an answer from Klimavichy DEC to their application for holding a picket at the city market, dated to the Freedom Day, 25 March.
13.03.2013 Presentation of historical book banned in Zelva
The presentation of the book "By the local history paths of Zelva area" by Siarhei Chyhryn was to have taken place at Zelva district library on 15 March. It is the first such detailed book concerning the history and local core studies of Zelva and the surrounding areas. The author tells interesting details about famous people of Zelva region, the events which took place there for the last 200 years and his talented contemporaries living there.
13.03.2013 Civil activists of Vitsebsk litigate with medics
The chief physician of Vitsebsk central city polyclinic refused to conclude service agreements with the organizers of the street rallies planned for 25 March. The head of Vitsebsk regional branch of the "For Freedom" movement Khrystafor Zhaliapau applied to court, asking to oblige the medics to conclude a service agreement with him. The preliminary hearings on the case took place on 12 March at Kastrychnitski District Court of Vitsebsk.
12.03.2013 Another ban on a mass event issued in Vitsebsk
Vitsebsk City Executive Committee refused to authorize the rally in honor of the 150th anniversary of the uprising of Kastus Kalinouski, planned by Yan Dziarzhautsau, a member of the Conservative-Christian Party "Belarusian Popular Front".
11.03.2013 Prospectives of the "Freedom Day" rally in Vitsebsk are unclear due to "seasonal rise in illnesses"
Leanid Autukhou, the head of Vitsebsk regional branch of the Belarusian Popular Front, filed an appeal to Chyhunachny District Executive Committee to hold a rally at Vitsebsk stadium "Locomotive". The head of the regional branch of the "For Freedom" movement Khrystafor Zhaliapau proposed to hold the 25 March rally in the park of 30hoddzia VLKSM Park.
27.02.2013 Salihorsk authorities ban picket to campaign for new clinic
Mikalai Maskevich, chief ideology official of Salihorsk district executive committee, issued a ban on a rally in support of the construction of a new municipal polyclinic, thus dismissing an application of February 8 submitted by local civil society activists.
25.02.2013 Vitsebsk pro-dem activist Yan Dziarzhautsau sues city executive authorities over impossible decree
Yan Dziarzhautsau, member of the Conservative Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front”, keeps fighting for the right to express his views during pickets and other mass events. The order of these events is regulated by Decision No. 881 by Vitsebsk city executive committee. The opposition activist tried to sue the city’s utilities, an organization that, in his opinion, violates the decision of the executive committee and hinders the implementation of the right to freedom of expression.
25.02.2013 Six months wasted for Minsk Regional Court takes to rule in Young Front activist’s case
Andrei Tychyna, Salihorsk activists of the Young Front opposition movement, has finally received a ruling by Minsk Regional Court, six months after he submitted his appeal to challenge a ban on holding a bike ride. It wasn’t until the case was addressed by representatives of the central office of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee that the struggle of the young opposition activist with the judicial bureaucracy had been put an end to.
21.02.2013 Musical performance on Mother Language Day banned in Polatsk
The event was to be held on February 21 near the sculpture of the letter “Ў”.
17.02.2013 Another rock concert banned in Minsk
The administration of the Minsk-based Doodah King club announced cancellation of a concert scheduled for 18 February and entitled “Bulboks-Live”, which was expected to feature the bands IQ48 and Dai Darohu, Nasha Niva reports referring to the organizers’ account on the social network “VKontakte”.
08.02.2013 Baranavichy authorities ban rally because the applicant has been punished by court for an administrative offense
On 7 February the Baranavichy entrepreneur and civil activist Mikalai Charnavus received a letter signed by the deputy head of the Baranavichy City Executive Committee Dz. Kastsiukevich in which it was stated that the executive committee did not authorize the rally the applicant intended to held on 12 February. As it is stated in the letter, "the persons who have been punished for violating the order of holding or organizing mass events cannot act as organizers of mass events during one year after the imposition of the administrative penalty".
08.02.2013 Head of the Mahiliou Region UCP branch appeals picket ban
On 7 February Uladzimir Shantsau filed an appropriate appeal with the Mahiliou Region Court.
28.01.2013 Dzieciuki concert banned in Minsk
A possible reason for the ban is an interview with charter97.org website.
28.01.2013 Mahiliou court upholds picket ban
The Court of Mahiliou Leninski District dismissed today a lawsuit brought by Uladzimir Shantsau, local leader of the United Civil Party, to challenge a ban on holding a picket imposed by the city executive committee.
