The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

15.11.2013 Lohvinau vs. Ministry of Information hearing appointed for November 18

The publisher is trying to appeal the decision to deprive him of his publishing licence.

15.11.2013 Euroradio correspondent office prolongs accreditation in Belarus

PM Mikhail Myasnikovich signed a corresponding decree. It is published at the Belarusian national legal internet-portal.

13.11.2013 Valiantsin Stefanovich asks Ministry of Communications and Informational Technologies

On 13 November the Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovich lodged a complaint with the Ministry of Communications and Informational Technologies. He is seeking the disclosure of the authority by whose decision the organization's website was banned from the use in the state agencies and institutions.

13.11.2013 Minsk Regional Prosecutor's Office turns down Viktar Malochka's appeal against the actions of the Salihorsk district newspaper “Shakhtsior”

The Minsk Regional Prosecutor's Office didn't grant the appeal of the local civil society activist Viktar Malochka against the editorial office of the newspaper “Shakhtsior”, founded by the Salihorsk District Executive Committee. Now the activist is going to apply to the Office of the Prosecutor General.

12.11.2013 International experts analyze the Belarusian legislation in the sphere of NGOs

International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) prepared an analysis of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on the non-profit organizations. This is by far the most thorough and comprehensive review of the Belarusian non-profit law and the legal environment of non-governmental organizations.

12.11.2013 Belarus remains at bottom of Eastern Partnership media freedom lis

Minsk, 11 November. Belarus has again been ranked last among the six Eastern Partnership participating countries in a media freedom index compiled by Ukraine`s Internews with the support of the European Union, Andrei Bastunets, deputy chairman of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), told reporters in Minsk on Monday.

12.11.2013 Authorities cover up black lists' compilers

Officials conceal on the basis of which document independent web-sites have been included in the list of Internet information sources with limited access.

11.11.2013 Trial “BELSATplus” vs. “BelSat TV” postponed to 9 December

The Supreme Court decided to defer the trial on request of the representative of the “BelSat TV” Michail Yanchuk.

06.11.2013 Citizens, detained near the detention facility in Akrestsin Street, released in three hours

On 6 November the police arrested nine people who came to the center for the isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street to meet the Homel resident Yury Rubtsou, detained after the end of the “Dziady” rally in Minsk and sentenced to 3 days of arrest for the alleged “insubordination to the police”.

30.10.2013 Journalists detained in Minsk again

Independent journalists Alyaksandr Barazenka and Maria Artsybashava were detained on Tuesday near the Pershamaiskaya metro station in Minsk.

25.10.2013 Mahiliou KGB avenges blogger

Dzmitry Yarmolenka has been already kicked out of the Kuliashou Mahiliou State University, and now they are trying to put pressure on him at work.

24.10.2013 Krychau court dismisses case against Volny Horad newspaper

Krychau district court dismissed today another lawsuit filed against the journalists of the independent newspaper Volny Horad ("Free Town"), after employees of the Cherykau-based state-owned enterprise PMK-280 gave up their claims to the weekly.

24.10.2013 Lohvinau Sues Information Ministry

On October 23, the publishing house “Lohvinau” filed a lawsuit to the Supreme Economic Court demanding to nullify the Ministry’s order to withdraw license from the publishing house.

24.10.2013 Good Cop or Bad Cop?

On October 23 the chairperson of BAJ Zhanna Litvina and her deputy Andrei Bastunets had a talk with the head of the police department of the Minsk City Executive Committee Aliaksandr Barsukou. The topic of the meeting was the detention of journalists on October 19 at the railway station in Minsk.