Detentions during Chernobyl Way memorial march
27/04/2013 - 16:31

Source: HRC "Viasna"

Environmental activists Iryna Sukhiy, Vasil Siniukhin, Kanstantsin Kirylenka and Volha Konovalova were detained at about 6 p.m. at the apartment of Iryna Sukhiy, leader of the “Eka-Dom” NGO. All of them were eventually released from Pershamaiski police department at about 9 p.m.

Human rights defender Viachaslau Dashkievich was detained at about 7.40 p.m. near Savetski district police department.

Vitebsk activists continue to appeal against the fines for organizing the People's Assembly.
12/03/2012 - 11:52

Illustration: spring96.org, the text on poster: "Everyone has the right to freedom of assembly and association".

Iryna Yaskevich and Tatsiana Seviarynets, fined for organizing the People’s Assembly on October 8, 2011 in Vitebsk, filed supervisory appeals against the court decisions with the assistance of the BHC* Vitebsk representative, Pavel Levinau.

The City Court held that the ban on the march of the Minsk Gay Pride was legitimate. A co-organizer of the Pride, Natallia Mankouskaya: none of the judges thought for what purpose it was necessary to prohibit a peaceful meeting.
29/02/2012 - 14:51

On February 23, the Minsk City Court dismissed a complaint, which had been lodged by the organizers of the march in the framework of the Festival "Minsk Gay Pride 2011." Siarhei Androsenka and Natallia Mankouskaya asked the court to declare the ban of the Minsk City Executive Committee on this public action to be illegal.

"Brestkoe pravo" in the markets of the city
27/02/2012 - 08:36

In Brest the activists of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee* once again distributed the local human rights bulletin "Brestkoe Pravo."

Final Report by the Special Rapporteur on the events of 19 December 2010 of the Committee on International Control over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus
11/01/2012 - 09:32

This Final Report by the Special Rapporteur of the Committee on International Control
over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus is a follow‐up to the earlier Interim
Report published in May 2011.

Analysis of Amendments Initiated to be Introduced into the Legislation of the Republic of Belarus
19/10/2011 - 21:42

Analytical Note by Belarusian Human Rights Defenders
October 17, 2011
The Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs
Republican Human Rights Public Association “Belarusian Helsinki Committee”
Human Rights Center “Viasna”
Legal Transformation Center

The present research focuses on analysis of amendments initiated to be introduced into a range of laws of the Republic of Belarus in autumn of 2011.