News on the topic: students’ rights
31.05.2023 HRDs: Law school of Belarusian State University infringed students' rights forcing them into “confession” videos
Joint statement on the distribution of “repentant” videos by the Faculty of Law of Belarusian State University.
24.11.2020 Immediately release arrested students and professor!
Joint statement by Belarusian human rights organizations
19.11.2020 Human rights defenders call to release arrested student activists
Statement of Protest against attack on Belarusian Students' Association
24.07.2017 The Many Faces Of Forced Labour In Belarus
According to the International Labour Organisation, violations of workers' rights in Belarus go beyond unpaid youth labour. The most notorious examples include forced labour of prisoners, soldiers, and inmates at labour therapy facilities, as well as occasional unpaid work on Saturdays and mandatory job placements for university graduates.
13.07.2017 Another student expelled over opposition activity
Mikalai Lohvinau, activist of the Belarusian Popular Front’s youth wing, has been expelled from the Minsk State Polytechnic College, the Association of Belarusian Students said.
27.06.2017 Campaign to Defend Academic Rights in Belarus
On June 26, a conference was held in Minsk aimed to support Belarusian students who have been expelled from universities for their public activities.
09.06.2017 Teaching repression a lesson: support Belarusian students to get back into university
Being active in politics or civil society as a student is not self-evident in Belarus. The country has a long and sad history of expelling students from university for their activities in civil society or politics.
23.02.2016 Student NGOs protest anti-government allegations
The country’s three leading NGOs working for students’ rights have sent a collective appeal to the Belarusian State Medical University about a message posted on VKontakte social network by a representative of University’s Student Self-Government Coordination Council.
23.12.2015 Minsk court fines student over protest
Pavel Siarhei, an activist who was involved in a protest staged by the students of the Belarusian State University on December 2, has been fined 4.5 mln on charges of illegal demonstrating (Part 1, Art. 23.34 of the Administrative Code).
17.12.2015 Police charge another participant in students’ protest
Pavel Siarhei, an activist who was involved in a protest staged by the students of the Belarusian State University on December 2, will stand trial on charges of participating in an unauthorized demonstration (Part 1, Art. 23.34 of the Administrative code).
15.01.2015 Student challenges his expulsion from Belarusian State University
The continuation of the consideration of Uladzimir Andryienkas appeal against his expulsion from the juridical faculty of Belarusian State University continued at the Maskouski District Court of Minsk on January 14.
07.10.2014 Ministry of Education answered to “Oh, Bologna!” only after three months
As it follows from the answer, the decision concerning the accession of Belarus to the Bologna process and made has been made and will not be discussed any more. However, the essence of the decision remains unknown: the ministry advised the activists to address members of the Chamber of Representatives to find about it.
12.09.2014 Homel: the trial concerning the expulsion of Andrei Tsianiuta from university is delayed for inviting an interpreter
On September 12, the Tsentralny District Court of Homel started hearing a civil case of the co-chair of the "Young Front" Andrei Tsianiuta.
21.07.2014 Students advised to abandon NGO activities, says independent monitoring
Belarus has intensified pressure on the students for their participation in the activities of civil society organizations, say coordinators of a monitoring on violations of human rights and academic freedoms of students carried out by the Studentskaya Rada NGO in the framework of the Public Committee of Bologna.
03.06.2014 Online monitoring of violations of the rights of students in universities
Violations of the rights of students are fairly common phenomenon in Belarusian universities. Youth human rights group "Student Council" launches online monitoring, where each student who confronted the violation of students’ rights can post information about it and mark the violation on the map.
