News on the topic: freedom of peaceful assembly
02.03.2015 Pavel Levinau unable to challenge picket ban
The court session was held in an unusual format - a conference on Skype. Pavel Levinau had hoped that deputy head of the administration of Pershamaiski district Volha Hurchanka would give her comments on-line. But she did not participate in the trial, even with the assistance of modern technology.
25.02.2015 Pinsk authorities expand list of authorized venues for public events
According to a new decision of the Pinsk city executive committee, rallies, meetings and pickets (except for demonstrations and marches) can now be held in five locations, while the previous regulation adopted in 2011 allowed staging protests in only three locations (stadiums Prypiats and DTSAAF), as well as a stage in the city park.
24.02.2015 Human rights activist appeals picket ban to Brest Regional Court
Human rights activist from Baranavichy Siarhei Housha has sent an appeal to the Judicial Board on Civil Cases of the Brest Regional Court to challenge the decision of the Baranavichy District and City Court of 27 January, which upheld the ban on a picket ordered by the city executive committee on 10 December 2014.
23.02.2015 Ryhor Kastusiou keeps appealing penalty for memorial action
On 23 February, deputy chairman of the BPF Party Ryhor Kastusiou filed a supervisory appeal to the Chairman of the Mahiliou Regional Court against a fine of 25 basic units (3,750,000 rubles) imposed on him for participating in allegedly unauthorized public events in the town of Svislach and in the village of Yakushouka held on 26 October 2014.
23.02.2015 4 pickets banned in Polatsk and Vitsebsk
All these events were banned by local authorities due to the fact that the organizers did not submit contracts with doctors, police and public utilities.
23.02.2015 Salihorsk: ban on Human Rights Day picket appealed to court of cassation
Human rights activist Leanid Markhotka has filed an appeal in the Minsk Regional Court to challenge a decision of the court of Salihorsk district which dismissed his earlier appeal against a ban imposed on a picket scheduled for Human Rights Day.
20.02.2015 Retrial of Nina Bahinskaya ends in heavy fine
On 20 February, the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk re-examined the administrative case of Nina Bahinskaya, who was accused of participating in an unauthorized mass event held at the monument to Taras Shevchenko on 22 January.
18.02.2015 Minsk Regional Court confirms penalty for memorial action in Kurapaty
According to Judge Hurynovich, the decision of the Minsk district court for the recovery of a fine of 3 million 750 thousand rubles from vice-chairman of the CCP BPF Yury Belenki was legal, Radio Racyja reports.
18.02.2015 UN Human Rights Committee accepts complaint against ban on rally in support of Ales Bialiatski
On 18 February, Yury Varonezhtsau, a resident of Homel who sent a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, received a message from Geneva saying that his communication had been accepted by the Committee for consideration.
17.02.2015 Baranavichy officials ban picket against corruption and high utility prices
The Baranavichy City Executive Committee has banned a picket against corruption and high utility prices. It became known from a letter signed by the deputy chairman of the executive committee Dzmitry Kastsiukevich.
16.02.2015 Human rights activist writes to Prosecutor’s Office to challenge penalties for photo session
Vitsebsk civil society activists continuing their struggle for the right to be photographed in the streets of the city: human rights activist Pavel Levinau has written a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office about the penalties for a photo shoot on a background of graffiti, after the executive committee sent him a written reply that the photo shoot was not a mass event.
13.02.2015 Trade union activists itnend to hold pickets against Decree No. 5
BCDTU has applied to Minsk City Executive Committee to obtain a permission for holding a picket in Minsk on February 21 with the aim to protest against the entry into legal force of Presidential Decree No. 5 "On strengthening the requirements for managers and employees of organizations".
13.02.2015 Tsentralny DPD denies restricting access to ambulatory court hearings
February 11, Leanid Kulakou received a response from the Tsentralny District Police Department of Minsk to his entry in its complaint book.
11.02.2015 Total sum of fines for participants of Memorial Day in Svislach is 38,250,000 roubles
Hrodna human rights defenders summed up the fines issued to participants of the memorial action in honour of the insurgents of 1863-1864, held in the town on October 26, 2014 in the town of Svislach and in the village of Yakushouka, where the mansion of the Kalinouskis (the organizers of the anti-Russian uprising) was situated.
10.02.2015 Yury Belenki to appeal actions of Leninski District Court of Minsk
Yury Belenki will appeal a ruling of the Leninski district court of Minsk. Judge Maryna Zapasnik informed the guardianship authorities about the need to monitor the situation of children in the family of the deputy chairman of the Conservative Christian Party of the Belarusian Popular Front.
