News on the topic: freedom of peaceful assembly
09.12.2011 Brest: picket in support of political prisoners banned too
Human rights activist Uladzimir Vialichkin applied for holding a one-hour picket to the Brest City Executive Committee.
09.12.2011 Babruisk: UCP activist Zmitser Toustsik put on wanted list
His wife Alena received this information from police. She says a criminal case was opened against her husband.
08.12.2011 Trial of national-Bolshevik Kontush postponed
On 8 December Yury Harbatouski, Judge of the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, continued the consideration of the administrative case against Yauhen Kontush, who is charged with “disorderly conduct” for alleged spilling a bucket of noodles and scattering leaflets at the entrance of the Belarusian TV and Radio Company on 3 December.
08.12.2011 Human rights pickets banned in Homel and Vitsebsk
The Homel City Executive Committee banned human rights defenders Anatol Paplauny and Leanid Sudalenka from holding a picket on 10 December, Human Rights Day, at one of the central squares of the city.
07.12.2011 Brest authorities ban 10 December rally
The official reason for the ban is that some “mournful event will take place in the park of soldiers-internationalists with participation of a delegation from Nizhniy Novgorod”.
07.12.2011 Babruisk: trial postponed
The second hearing on the case of the “Young Democrats” Alena and Dzmitry Toustsiks, Maryna Ivanova and Artsiom Markhasiou, who had lit candles on Ancestors' Commemoration Day, 2 November, was to have taken place today, on 7 December.
07.12.2011 Minsk: mother of many children protests against death penalty
Mother of many children Tatsiana Hatsura has conducted a special performance together with her children.
06.12.2011 Minsk: police haunt national-Bolsheviks
On 6 December morning the police started searching for the youngsters who could have relation to the action which had been conducted at the entrance of the Belarusian State TV and Radio Company on 3 December.
06.12.2011 Brest activists appeal against picket bans
Brest-based civil activists filed with the Brest Region Court an appeal against the refusal of the authorities to authorize pickets in support of political prisoners.
06.12.2011 Brest: procuracy warns Zinaida Mikhniuk
Natallia Selekh, Brest prosecutor, issued an official warning to Zinaida Mikhniuk, head of the Brest department of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry, for a rally appointed on 10 December.
06.12.2011 Human rights pickets banned in Barysau and Maladechna
On 5 December the Barysau human rights defenders Aleh Matskevich and Maryna Statkevich received from the Barysau District Executive Committee a refusal to authorize a picket dated to the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
05.12.2011 Vitsebsk: new official issues first ban
Yury Panfilau, recently appointed the head of the Chyhunachyn District Executive Committee of Vitsebsk, prohibited the local democratic activists to hold a picket dated to an anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
05.12.2011 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka stands trial for “disorderly conduct”
Siarhei Kavalenka, accused by police of swearing, is tried at the Pershamaiski District Court of Vitsebsk. Policeman Kahkhlouski drew up a police report against the activist, the press service of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party reports.
02.12.2011 Georgian human rights defenders demanded from Lukashenka to release Bialiatski (photos, video)
On 1 December in Tbilisi members of the “Center for Human Rights” (HRIDC), a member organization of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), joined the global action in support of Ales Bialiatski, vice-President of the FIDH, Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
02.12.2011 Brest: no acquittal for Viktar Syrytsa and Zinaida Mikhniuk
On 11 November Stanislau Pivavar, Judge of the Baranavichy City and District Court, fined Viktar Syrytsa 875,000 rubles under Article 23.34, part 2, “violation of the rules of conduct of mass events”, for holding the People's Assembly in Baranavichy on 8 October.
