News on the topic: freedom of peaceful assembly
16.03.2012 UN Human Rights Committee registers complaint by Barysau picketer
Barysau human rights defender Aleh Matskevich has received a reply from the UN Human Rights Committee saying that his complaint against several picket bans imposed by the town authorities has been registered by the Committee.
15.03.2012 Baranavichy police looking for author of information about unauthorized rally
On 15 March police major Vital Dabrachynski called civil activist Viktar Syrytsa to come to room #106 of the Baranavichy City Police Department. He wanted the activist to tell who the author of the information which was published on independent websites on 28 December 2011 and concerned an unauthorized rally the entrepreneur Mikalai Charnavus intended to hold was.
15.03.2012 Baranavichy: one-man picket banned
Deputy head of the Baranavichy city organization of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" received a letter signed by the deputy head of the Baranavichy City Executive Committee Dz. Kastsiukevich.
15.03.2012 Freedom Day action banned in Slonim
On 7 March members of the democratic society of Slonim applied to the Slonim District Executive Committee with the application for authorization of a rally dedicated to the Freedom Day, 25 March (the date of the proclamation of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918), in the city park.
15.03.2012 Brest authorities allowed only one out of three pickets
Activists of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" intended to hold three pickets on 17 March in order to draw public attention to the implementation of the legal right to accessible accommodation.
14.03.2012 Uruccha protesters threatened with arrest
On 14 March dwellers of houses in Rusiyanau Street (Uruccha suburb of Minsk) against went out of their houses to protest against the construction of a 19-stored house for riot policemen.
14.03.2012 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka’s wife and 7-month-old daughter get detained
Alena Kavalenka, her 7-month-old daughter and a number of Kavalenka’s friends were detained for holding an action of solidarity with the political prisoner. Siarhei Parsiukevich told about the detention by telephone.
14.03.2012 15 pickets banned in Brest district
On 16 March activists of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" intended to hold actions in 14 villages and the town of Damachava to express their protest against the ongoing increase of prices on foodstuffs and public utilities, which had an especially negative impact on the economical situation of pensioners and families with many children.
14.03.2012 Pavel Vinahradau sentenced to another 7-day arrest
The Maskouski district court resumed hearing of Pavel Vinahradau's administrative case on 13 March.
13.03.2012 Barysau: Ihar Askerka sentenced to 10 days of arrest
Ihar Askerka, the son of activist Anatoly Askerka, was tried today in Barysau. Anatol was arrested earlier for an action to support political prisoner Andrei Sannikau.
12.03.2012 Antol Askerka's son gets detained
On 11 March Barysau police detained activist of "European Belarus" Ihar Askerka who was holding a picket of solidarity with his father, sentenced to 15 days of arrest for holding an action of solidarity with political prisoner Andrei Sannikau.
12.03.2012 Barysau: detained activists sentenced to arrest
On 10 March Herasimovich, Judge of the Barysau District Court, considered the administrative cases against Anatol Askerka and Ivan Shutko and sentenced them to 15 and 10 days of arrest for participation in an unauthorized mass action.
12.03.2012 "Young Front" members sentenced to long terms of arrest
"Young Front" activists detained in Minsk three days ago were tried at the Leninski District Court of Minsk. RFE/RL learned this from "Young Front" deputy head Anastasiya Palazhanka.
12.03.2012 Freedom Day organizers get first refusals
One of the event's initiators Viktar Ivashkevich has informed "Euroradio" that the officials are supposed to send their reply to the application which was filed on 23 February no later than on 20 March – 5 days before the event.
09.03.2012 Police interfere with action of “Our Alternative” in Homel
At 12 a.m. activists of the civil initiative “Our Alternative” held an action within the framework of the campaign “Stop Drinking – Start Living!”. Zmitser Karashkou, Vasil Takarenka, Andrei Tsianiuta and Kastus Zhukouski handed out anti-alcoholic postcards near the central supermarket of Homel, congratulating passers-by on the International Women’s Day.
