News on the topic: freedom of association
23.10.2013 Brest Regional Court turns down appeal against prosecutor's warning over illegal NGO membership
Brest Regional Court dismissed a complaint filed by a civil society activist from the town of Belaaziorsk Aliaksandr Kuzmin to contest the actions of the prosecutor of Biaroza district and the Brest Regional Prosecutor’s Office. Judge Alena Kavalchuk supported the decision of prosecutors who had issued a warning for activity on behalf of the unregistered organization, the "Tell the Truth" movement.
21.10.2013 Vilnius to host 3rd Belarusian Human Rights Forum on October 26-27
The 3rd Belarusian Human Rights Forum will be held on 26-27 October, 2013 in Vilnius. The Forum will bring together representatives of the Belarusian human rights organizations, as well as international and foreign human rights groups.
21.10.2013 NGOs urge EU to make its restrictive measures against Belarus effective
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee, together with a group of human rights NGOs from several European countries, sent a letter this week to the ministers of foreign affairs of EU member states urging the EU to extend and expand its targeted economic sanctions against Belarusian companies providing support to the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenka by exporting to and through the EU.
16.10.2013 Baranavichy activist seeks premises for Ukrainian minority group in court
On October 16, the court of Baranavichy district and the city of Baranavichy held a preliminary examination of a complaint by local civil society activist Mikalai Charnavus against head of the economics department of Baranavichy city executive committee Raisa Ulasovich.
13.10.2013 Assault as a kind of investigative actions
An activist of the Movement "For Freedom" Inha Abramava has come to the village if Tsikhinichy in the Brest region in order to spend her vacation with relatives. At about 2 p.m. on 11 October, when she was peacefully drinking tea and watching TV with her mother, 11-year-old sister and nephews (2 and 4 years old), she heard an explosion in the yard.
09.10.2013 Babruisk City Executive Committee refuses to register the Babruisk organization of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry
The chairperson of the Babruisk organization of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Halina Smirnova reported that the local authorities refused to register the trade union organization with the state. As it is stated in a letter signed by the deputy chairman of the executive committee Aliaksandr Markachou, “the letter of guarantee for the legal address has been revoked and the name of the union doesn't correspond to the requirements of the organization charter”.
08.10.2013 Amendments to the Electoral legislation condemned by 12 political parties and movements
The leader of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth" Uladzimir Niakliayeu believes that the amendments to the electoral laws do not allow to make the elections free, fair or transparent.
20.09.2013 Baranavichy Ukrainian minority NGO sues officials over office
Civil society activist Mikalai Charnavus lodged yesterday a complaint with the Court of Baranavichy district and the city of Baranavichy to challenge the actions by head of the executive committee’s economy department Mrs. Raisa Ulasovich.
30.08.2013 Young Christian Democrats keep seeking registration
The organizing committee for the creation of a public association called "Young Christian Democrats" is once again trying to obtain state registration, the press-service of the Belarusian Christian Democracy reports.
21.08.2013 GayBelarus leaders summoned for conversation to Office for Drug Control and Combating Trafficking in Person
On August 16, Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Project "GayBelarus" Maksim Dzmitryeu was summoned as a witness without specifying the administrative or criminal case to the Office for Drug Control and Combating Trafficking in Persons of the criminal police. The "conversation," as the representative of the "Belarusian Helsinki Committee", was attended by human rights activist Natalia Mankouskaya.
21.08.2013 Supreme Court upholds registration denial for United Civic Party’s youth wing
The Supreme Court of Belarus on Wednesday upheld the justice ministry's decision to deny state registration to the United Civic Party (UCP)’s youth wing called Maladyya Demakraty (Young Democrats).
21.08.2013 Authorities refuse to register association "Brest Christian Democrats"
A reply from the main department of Justice of Brest Regional Executive Committee suggests that the reason for the denial is that the names of the organization in Russian and Belarusian are different.
09.08.2013 Civil society activists had a meeting with Belarusian MPs
On 7 August the head of the Center for Legal Transformation Alena Tankachova and the lawyer of the Assembly of Democratic NGOs of Belarus Yuru Chavusau met with representatives of the Regular Commission of the Chamber of Representatives for Human Rights, National Relations and Mass Media. The Parliament was represented by MP Valery Kokash and a representative of the secretariat of the Chamber of Representatives.
09.08.2013 Salihorsk: People's referendum held under police surveillance
On Thursday, 8 August, the capital of the Belarusian miners, Salihorsk, was visited by the leaders of the initiative "Popular Referendum." The oppositionists discussed with the residents their life problems, but had to do it under a vigilant surveillance of the police.
07.08.2013 “Tell the Truth” didn't succeed in appealing registration denial
The Supreme Court of Belarus dismissed the complaint of the campaign "Tell the Truth" at the refusal of the Ministry of Justice to register the public association. The corresponding decision was voiced on 7 August by Judge Valiantsin Kulik. The Ministry of Justice explained its refusal to register the association by a reference to two "irremediable" violations.
