News on the topic: freedom of association
25.09.2015 Schoolchildren forced to join BRSM in Salihorsk
Local representatives of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Salihorsk have received information about cases of coercion and threats to students by the school administration in an attempt to force them join the pro-government youth organization Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM).
16.09.2015 Another trade union activist loses job in Babrujsk
The top managers of a Babrujsk-based Plant of Tractor Parts and Units (TDiA) continue dismissing activists of the Free Trade Union of Belarus.
20.08.2015 Ministry of Justice denies registration for BCD party for fifth time
The organising committee to create the Belarusian Christian Democracy party (BCD) received a refusal from the Ministry of Justice to the application for registration.
15.08.2015 Dzmitry Dashkevich disproves BT TV channel information
BT propagandists launched another deceptive story.
06.08.2015 Kličaŭ authorities terrorize BCD founders
In Kličaŭ district, local and regional authorities terrorize the people who have signed for the establishment of the Party “Belarusian Christian Democracy”. As said by the coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy in Mahilioŭ region, Taisiya Kabanchuk, first of all it concerns new people, who didn't put their signatures earlier.
30.07.2015 More trade union activists fired in Babrujsk
The management of the Babrujsk-based plant of tractor parts and units continues harassing members of the Free Trade Union of Belarus. Over the past two years, the employer has got rid of several trade union activists by refusing to extend their labor contracts. But the last two cases were “the height of cynicism and humiliation of all norms of human morality," say local members of the FTU.
27.07.2015 Be United!
An appeal by Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski
23.07.2015 Let’s mark together the Day of solidarity with civil society and human rights movement in Belarus!
August 4th is the day marked by democratic activists around the world as the Day of solidarity with civil society and human rights movement in Belarus.
22.07.2015 Monitoring for the II Quarter of 2015 on Freedom of Association Published
Assembly of NGOs together with the Legal Transformation Centre prepared Monitoring for the II quarter of 2015 ‘Freedom of association and legal conditions for non-profit organizations in Belarus”.
08.07.2015 "Committee against Torture" is left among the foreign agents and can be liquidated
July 8 the panel of judges of the regional court in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) dismissed the appeal of the human rights organization "Committee against Torture" and upheld the decision of the Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod, which upheld the prosecutor of Nizhny Novgorod Region Oleg Panasenko.
07.05.2015 Valiantsin Stefanovich: It is worth reminding the Ministry of Justice about the position of the UNHRC regarding the non-registration of "Viasna"
In her speech in Geneva at the UPR procedure for Belarus, the representative of the Ministry of Justice Hanna Shpak stated that some groups are capitalizing on their status of unregistered public associations for political reasons. Deputy Head of Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovich, who was present at that meeting, decided that it was worth reminding the officials of the Ministry of Justice about the history of the organization's non-registration.
17.03.2015 Court in Mahiliou dismisses suit to close human rights NGO
The Mahiliou Regional Court resumed today the consideration of a lawsuit filed by the Main Department of Justice of the Mahiliou Regional Executive Committee to close down the public association “Mahiliou Human Rights Center” (MHRC). As a result, the court ruled to dismiss the suit by mutual agreement of the parties.
17.03.2015 BELARUS: The only registered regional human rights organisation under the threat of dissolution
Joint statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee on a lawsuit to close down the Mahiliou Human Rights Center, which will be heard in the Mahiliou Regional Court on March 17.
16.03.2015 Ales Bialiatski: Authorities are trying to beat journalists and human rights activists out of the electoral process
The head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" commented on the recent facts of the persecution of journalists and human rights defenders in Mahiliou at his public Facebook page.
12.03.2015 Anzhalika Borys subjected to prophylactic supervision
She is suspected of acting on behalf of an unregistered organization.She was informed by it by an investigator of the Financial Investigations Department of the Committee of State Control in the Hrodna region.
