News on the topic: freedom of peaceful assembly
03.12.2008 Polatsk: police detain participants of action in support of political prisoner Barazenka
A young activist from Polatsk Ales Krutkin and two his fellow activists planned to hold a rally in support of political prisoner Alexander Barazenka.
02.12.2008 Astravets: police detain civil activists on the way to nuclear power station building site
The leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka, a journalist Vadzim Kaznacheyeu and a leader of the youth wing of the UCP, ‘Young Democrats’, Alexander Serhiyenka, have been detained in Astravets.
02.12.2008 Brest: lying picket is dispersed
A citizen of Brest Zhana Abramava protested against her unlawful eviction from the inherited apartment at the central square of Brest, opposite the building of Brest city executive committee. The civil activists Yury Bakur and Ivan Stasiuk participated in the picket as well.
02.12.2008 Chavusy: activists collect signatures against construction of nuclear power plant
Activists of Horki-based initiative ‘Anti-nuclear group’ resumed collection of signatures against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus.
02.12.2008 Vitsebsk: human rights activist is not allowed to hold pickets
Pavel Levinau, activist of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, intended to hold a number of pickets dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Human Rights Declaration. He addressed Vitsebsk authorities with the request to authorize the actions and received a refusal signed by the deputy head of Vitsebsk city executive committee Pavel Losich.
02.12.2008 Minsk: action of solidarity with political prisoner Barazenka
An action of solidarity with political prisoner Alexander Barazenka was traditionally held near the prison in Valadarski Street of Minsk yesterday.
01.12.2008 Unidentified persons tear white-red-white flag at memorial action
Public figures visited Kurapaty memorial area to pay tribute to heroes of Slutsk uprising, repressed and killed under Stalin’s rule.
24.11.2008 Police detain participants of “MTS in Belarusian” rally
A rally with a call to was held in front of an office of MTS mobile service provider in Independence Street in Minsk. Protesters demanded services to be provided in Belarusian.
20.11.2008 Young Front activists detained near Supreme Court
Security guards of the Supreme Court detained “Young Front” activists Nasta Palazhanka and minor Yulya Mikhailava.
17.11.2008 “Freedom to Aliaksandar Barazenka!” actions held in Minsk
Several actions demanding to release political prisoners were held in the center of Minsk on the Day of Belarusian Solidarity, November 16. Activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, “Young Front” and “Young Belarus” came to the squares of the Belarusian capital carrying portraits of Aliaksandar Barazenka.
11.11.2008 Minsk: ‘Young Front’ activist is detained for action near Leninski district court
On 10 November at 10 p.m. the police detained the activist of the Young Front Mikalai Dzemidzenka who had taken part in the action in support to the young oppositionists who had been tried at Leninski district court for holding an anticommunist picket near the KGB office on 7 November.
10.11.2008 Polatsk: youth activists to stand trial for anti-communist action
Reports were drawn up against Polatsk youth activists for they unfurled a national white-red-white flag and an orange flag of the initiative Young Belarus in the city center.
10.11.2008 Minsk: detention at action in support of tried ‘Young Front’ activists
On 10 November near Leninski district court of Minsk there took place an action in support of several Young Front members who had been detained for a picket near the KGB office on 7 November, an anniversary of October revolution.
10.11.2008 Minsk: ‘Young Front’ activists detained for action near KGB office
Seven members of the Young Front opposition youth group were grabbed by police during a demonstration near the headquarters of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in Minsk on 7 November. The young people were standing in front of the KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky's bust, holding a sign that said, ‘Communism must be brought before tribunal!’
06.11.2008 Participants of action against foreign travel restrictions are beaten by police
The leaders and activists of the Belarusian opposition who tried to bring address to the authorities of Belarus to the Internal Affairs Ministry and the General Prosecutor’s Office with a request to authorize their travelling outside Belarus were beaten up by policemen in mufti.
