News on the topic: freedom of peaceful assembly
01.06.2012 Hrodna police detain journalists and beat picketers
Hrodna police conducted a mass detention of journalists on 1 June. Journalist Andrei Pachobut has been detained and is kept at the police station in Kurchatau Street. Yan Roman has been detained. His mobile phone is switched off. According to some information, he has been taken to the Leninski District Police Department in Hrodna.
30.05.2012 Orsha authorities ban 14 pickets for free elections
Orsha town executive committee has banned a series of pickets scheduled for 31 May. None of the 14 applications has been sanctioned by local executive officials.
29.05.2012 Picket “Beds for everyone” banned
Post graduate student Alyaksei Paulouski was not allowed to hold a picket near the Academy of Science.
24.05.2012 Berlin residents join campaign for abolition of death penalty in Belarus
Amnesty International’s office in Berlin held an action in support of a campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Belarus.
23.05.2012 Hrodna authorities ban pickets in support of Polish minority school
Hrodna city executive officials have banned the holding of a series of pickets in support of retaining Polish-language education at a local secondary school attended by representatives of the city’s Polish minority.
17.05.2012 Gay Protests Not Allowed In Minsk
MINSK-- Authorities in the Belarusian capital Minsk have prevented gay activists from holding protests to mark the International Day Against Homophobia on May 17.
16.05.2012 Hrodna: Predictable court ruling
Hrodna Leninski District Court has dismissed appeals by local pro-democratic activists Yury Istomin, Vadzim Saranchukou and Uladzimir Khilmanovich in their lawsuit against the city’s executive committee.
16.05.2012 Hrodna officials keep restricting freedom of assembly
Hrodna city executive committee keeps violating the Mass Events Code by either denying local pro-democratic activists’ rights to stage pickets and meetings or failing to authorize the events in due time.
15.05.2012 Hrodna: civil activists vs. city authorities
Hearings on a lawsuit of civil activists against Hrodna authorities have started at the Leninski District Court of Hrodna.
15.05.2012 Police questioned Vitsebsk activist Alena Semenchukova
Activist of the "European Belarus" Alena Semenchukova was questioned about hanging out a white-red-white flag on the roof of the building of the medical university.
14.05.2012 Pickets "For fair elections without Lukashenka" are banned all over Belarus
The appropriate campaign was launched by the United Civil Party. Such pickets were banned in Babruisk, Barysau, Brest and Mahiliou. The organizers wanted to hold the actions in busy places in order to attract the attention of the population. However, they were usually answered that the pickets could be held only in the places that had been officially determined for such actions.
11.05.2012 Rahachou authorities ban pickets in support of "Dazhynki" festival
Civil activists of Rahachou intended to hold several pickets and an assembly in the district Culture Palace within the framework of the campaign "Let's return "Dazhynki" to Rahachou!". However, Rahachou District Executive Committee banned all these events.
11.05.2012 Prison guards refuse to accept food parcels for Dzmitryieu and Pashkevich
Activists of “Tell the Truth!” campaign and some people from neighboring villages and summer cottages communities gathered near the police department of the Smaliavichy district.
10.05.2012 11 May: Paris supports Ales Bialiatski
On 11 May a gigantic portrait of the vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights Ales Bialiatski with the demand of his immediate release from prison will be hanged out on the façade of the Paris Mayor’s office.
10.05.2012 “Young Front” activists fined for throwing eggs at Lenin
The court of the Maskouski district of Minsk satisfied in part the claim by communists Mikalai Yushchanka and Mikalai Valovich.
