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  • THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT EXPRESSED THE NEED FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, THE PROSECUTOR'S ACTIONS FOR CASES WITH NEWLY DISCOVERED CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE APPEALED TO THE COURT

    The decision was made by the Constitutional Court after the appeal of the citizen A.Khvostik. The Belarusian Helsinki Committee helped to prepare the papers for the case. // 05.06.2019

  • Ensure exercise of freedom of peaceful assembly!

    The human rights community has repeatedly highlighted the fact that the duty of payment for peaceful assemblies associated with the exercise of freedom of peaceful assembly and of expression, is an unacceptable practice that drastically limits the possibility of free exercise of these freedoms in practice. // 06.05.2019

  • Homeless people and the right to housing in Belarus

    The report is based on a study of Belarusian legislation and shows a lack of reliable statistics measuring the scale of the problem of homelessness in Belarus. // 26.04.2019

  • Immediately stop prosecution of blogger Siarhei Piatrukhin

    Representatives of human rights organizations in Belarus call to immediately stop the criminal prosecution of Siarhei Piatrukhin and drop all the charges against him; to not use the Criminal Code in cases involving defamation. // 03.04.2019

  • RESIDENTS OF BOGUSHEVSK ASSERT THEIR RIGHT TO HEALTH

    With the assistance of the BHC representative, an initiative group from Bogushevsk prepared collective appeals. One of them - to the Presidential Administration and the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee with the demands to keep the hospital and the polyclinic - is available on the website “Convenient City.” More than 1000 residents of the urban village and neighboring villages signed the appeals. // 05.03.2019

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