News on the topic: foreign travel restrictions
02.04.2012 General procuracy evades from reacting to appeal of blacklisted human rights activist
The General Procuracy forwarded the appeal of the deputy head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovich concerning unlawful foreign travel restrictions to the Ministry of Defense. The human rights defender was informed about it by a letter on 28 March.
29.03.2012 Belarus Opposition Activists Freed From Jail, But Passports Held
MINSK -- Three opposition activists in Belarus have been released from jail, a day after they were arrested while trying to travel to Brussels to meet European Union officials.
27.03.2012 Lyabedzka sues Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Justice
Anatol Lyabedzka applied to the Tsentralny district court with a legal action against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice.
23.03.2012 Leu Marholin banned from leaving Belarus
The deputy chair of the United Civil Party (UCP) received an appropriate paper from the police department of Barysau.
22.03.2012 Valiantsin Stefanovich appeals foreign travel ban in court
Valiantsin Stefanovich has lodged a complaint with Minsk Tsentralny District Court against the travel ban imposed by the Belarusian Ministry of Defense.
22.03.2012 Vintsuk Vyachorka banned from leaving Belarus
A former chair of the BPF Party and public person could not leave for the Czech Republic.
21.03.2012 BHC leaders appeal foreign travel ban
Aleh Hulak, chair of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, and the BHC’s chief lawyer Harry Pahaniayla have lodged complaints against the foreign travel restrictions imposed on them by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice, the BHC press-service reports.
21.03.2012 Valiantsin Stefanovich banned from leaving Belarus for “draft evasion”
Valiantsin Stefanovich, deputy chair of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, was put on the notorious black list of foreign travel restrictions for alleged draft evasion, says a representative of a department on migration and citizenship in Minsk.
21.03.2012 Valery Ukhnalyou banned from leaving Belarus
Valery Ukhnalyou, the deputy head of the Belarusian Left Party “Fair World”, was not allowed to cross the state border this morning.
21.03.2012 Andrei Bandarenka sues Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Defence
On March 20, Andrei Bandarenka received an official reply from the military enlistment office of the town of Kirau. The reply reads he is not subject to the draft.
19.03.2012 IBB director not allowed entering Belarus
Dr. Astrid Sahm, director of the Minsk-based Johannes Rau International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB), has not been allowed entering Belarus, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
19.03.2012 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Human rights defenders banned from travelling abroad!
Paris-Geneva, March 16, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), deplores the series of travel bans imposed on a number of human rights defenders by the Belarusian authorities, amid the worsening of EU-Belarus diplomatic relations.
19.03.2012 Former Belarus Leader Barred From Leaving Country
Belarus first post-Soviet leader, Stanislau Shushkevich, says authorities have prevented him from leaving the country by removing him from a train bound for the capital of neighboring Lithuania.
16.03.2012 Front Line Defenders urges Belarus authorities to lift travel ban on human rights defenders
Over the past number of days, in a flagrant denial of their right to freedom of movement, several Belarusian human rights defenders have been stopped by border guards while they were leaving Belarus, along with numerous political activists and journalists.
16.03.2012 Human rights mission calls on Belarusian authorities to provide explanations regarding foreign travel ban list
The Observation Mission of the International Committee for Monitoring the Human Rights Situation in Belarus has called on the Belarusian authorities to provide explanations regarding their list of dissidents banned from foreign trips.
