News on the topic: freedom of peaceful assembly
13.05.2013 Belaaziorsk police vigilantly watched democratic activists
A voluntary cleaning of the recreation zone near Lake Belaye in Belaaziorsk was held under a vigilant supervision of the local police. Activists of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth!", the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) and the Free Trade Union of Belarus have cleaned this territory for several years already.
10.05.2013 Baranavichy: victims of Stalin's repressions commemorated on Victory Day
On 9 May civic society activists of Baranavichy commemorated the people who had perished during WWII and the times of Stalin's repressions. At first they laid down flowers to the Eternal Flame in the center of the city and then – near the cross to victims of Stalin's repressions of 1939-1953 at the crossing of Pirahou and Smalenskaya Streets (the place where "Kryvoye Kola" ("Crooked Circle") prison used to be situated). The iron cross was installed there in 1992 as a memorial sign to victims of Bolshevik repressions in Belarus.
08.05.2013 Siarhei Verameyenka gets fined for distributing printed matter without imprint
On 7 May the trial of Siarhei Verameyenka, an activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, took place in Leninski District Court of Hrodna.
08.05.2013 Two Vitsebsk activists to be tried for protest against construction of Nuclear Power Plant
A member of the Conservative-Christian Party "Belarusian Popular Front" Vital Kavalenka was charged with violating the Law on Mass Events. A week ago similar charges were given to his alley Yan Dziarzhautsau.
08.05.2013 Salihorsk Court dismisses appeal against Freedom Day picket ban
Salihorsk District Court didn't grant the appeal of civic activist Uladzimir Shyla against the ban of the picket he intended to hold on Freedom Day, 25 March. The trial was lead by the deputy-head of the court Ala Trafimchuk.
08.05.2013 Anzhalika Kambalava detained and fined for picket in memory of Zakharanka
On 7 May in Baranavichy an activist of the United Civil Party Anzhalika Kambalava was detained for holding a picket to remind the people about the missing ex-Minister of Interior, Yury Zakharanka.
06.05.2013 Journalists Barbarych and Yarashevich appeal court verdicts
The independent journalists informed the Belarusian Association of Journalists about filing appeals against their arrest with Minsk City Court.
06.05.2013 Hrodna: BCD activist to be tried for "Wave of Solidarity"
On 3 May Syarhey Verameyenka, Hrodna member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, was summonsed to a district police department and questioned in connection with his detention by people in mufti at the "Wave of Solidarity" action on 12 March.
06.05.2013 Baranavichy District Executive Committee bans Milavidy Feast on 150th anniversary of battle of Milavidy
Baranavichy City Executive Committee banned Milavidy feast, planned by the local public for 2 June 20113 and dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Milavidy battle of 1863. This became known from the letter, signed by the deputy head of Baranavichy District Executive Committee Anatol Filanchuk, received by the feast organizers Viachaslau Bolbat, Teresa Silivonchyk and Viktar Syrytsa.
03.05.2013 "Zmena" activists hang out streamer "Freedom to Political Prisoners" in Kastrychnitskaya Square
On Saturday, 4 May, an activist of "Zmena" (the youth wing of "Tell The Truth") Pavel Vinahradau is to be released after serving an arrest term.
03.05.2013 Yan Melnikau to spend all Easter holidays in jail
"For Freedom" activist Yan Melnikau was detained by police in the evening of 2 May. He was holding a streamer "Anarchism is not a crime. Ihar Trukhanovich is not a criminal" in Gorky Park in Minsk.
03.05.2013 Brest: authorities bann pickets in honor of Yury Zakharanka
Brest activists of the United Civil Party filed 12 applications to Brest City Executive Committee to hold pickets and remind about the fate of the former Minister of Interior Yury Zakharanka on 7 May (he went missing back on 7 May 1999).
02.05.2013 Brest: Labor Day action authorized for the first time in 11 years
The May Day rally in Brest was permitted by the authorities for the first time since 2002. On the eve of the event the representatives of the democratic forces who organized the event concluded service agreements with the police, medics and public utilities, which is required for the authorization of mass events.
01.05.2013 Bialynichy activist send congratulations to political prisoners (photos)
Greetings on the International Labor Day and the upcoming Orthodox Easter and the Victory Day have been sent to the Belarusian political prisoners by civil activists of Bialynichy area.
30.04.2013 Vitsebsk activists summoned to police over “Chernobyl picket”
Yan Dziarzhautsau, member of the Conservative Christian Party BPF, received a summons saying he should appear at Kastrychnitski police department of Vitsebsk on April 30 to provide explanations about the picket he had staged to mark the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, along with another CCP-BPF member Vital Kavalenka, brother of the famous activist Siarhei Kavalenka.
