News on the topic: freedom of peaceful assembly
25.06.2012 Fifth ban on pickets for free elections in Baranavichy
Baranavichy civil activist Ryhor Hryk has received another ban on holding a picket on 1 July to demand free elections in Belarus.
25.06.2012 Vitsebsk authorities ban pickets against torture
Vitsebsk human rights defender Pavel Levinau will not be able to hold three pickets on June 26, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, after his applications were dismissed by the city’s executive officials.
22.06.2012 Vitsebsk opposition activist demands prosecution of local executive officials
Yan Dziarzhautsau, Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front”, has lodged a complaint with the city’s executive committee, demanding to prosecute local officials who have repeatedly ignored the activist’s appeals.
19.06.2012 Hrodna court turns down appeal by local UCP leader
Hrodna Leninski District Court has dismissed a complaint lodged by Mrs. Aliaksandra Vasilevich, local leader of the United Civil Party of Belarus.
19.06.2012 One more picket banned in Baranavichy
Baranavichy civil activist Ryhor Hryk has received a reply from the city’s executive committee, saying that the activist’s application for holding a picket on 24 June has been dismissed.
15.06.2012 Brest: Uladzimir Vialiachkin continues appealing against picket ban
Human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin applied to the head of the Brest Region Court with the request to issue a protest against the verdicts on his civil case.
11.06.2012 Andrei Mouchan is accused of self-beating
Andrei Mouchan, an activist of "European Belarus" civil campaign beaten by police, visited the Investigation Committee.
08.06.2012 Baranavichy activist struggles for equality before law
Civil activist Ryhor Hryk filed written applications with the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General. He informs them that on 22 May the Savetski District Court of Minsk granted the lawsuit of a worker of the oil-processing plant Maryna Tsybliyenka against oppositional politician Viktar Ivashkevich.
08.06.2012 Hrodna: journalists punished with big fines
The trials over the journalists, protesters and passers-by detained during an action of protest in Hrodna on 31 May continued on 6 and 7 June.
07.06.2012 Hrodna: court conveyer at work again
Trials over the journalists and civil activists, detained at a picket against the introduction of Russian-language classes in the only school with the Polish language of instruction in Hrodna, started on 6 June.
07.06.2012 Malaryta authorities ban picket and ask about sources of its financing
Human rights defender Uladzimir Malei, who applied to the Malaryta District Executive Committee for authorization of a picket “For fair elections without Lukashenka”, received a negative answer, signed by the deputy head of the committee Vadzim Shpetny.
06.06.2012 Homel: activist of anti-alcoholic company threatened by anonymous
On 4 June Natallia Kryvashei was collecting signatures within the framework of the civil campaign “Stop drinking – start living!” under a proposal on amending of legal regulations concerning the sale of alcohol and measures on preventing the total alcoholization of the population.
06.06.2012 Brest Region Court turns down appeal against picket ban
On 4 June the Brest Region Court considered the appeal filed by activist of the Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World” and member of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Aliaksandr Dzenisenka against the a ruling of the Leninski District Court of Brest.
06.06.2012 Baranavichy police hinder picket against repressive actions of the authorities
Civil activist Ryhor Hryk (in the photo) filed another application to the Baranavichy City Executive Committee for authorization of the picket “Stop repressive actions of the authorities and officials”. He has already concluded service agreements with the communal utilities and medics.
05.06.2012 Brest residents appeal discriminative ruling on mass events
On 1 June Brest human rights activists passed to the Brest region court and procuracy a note of protest against the ruling of the executive committee imposing unlawful restrictions on freedom of assembly. The note was signed by about 200 residents of Brest.
