The need for interaction between civil society and governments to improve legislation for the prevention and avoidance of additional problems again becomes clear and obvious. Continue reading »

Tags: administrative law, decisions of the CC of RB, decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus, lawyers, legal inaccuracies, legal uncertainty, legal uncertainty and legal inaccuracies, Miensk, № P-1034/2016 "On legal regulation of the suspension of activities of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs", Parliament, Sergei Magonov, Siarhiej Mahonaŭ, suggestions for amendments to the legislation, suggestions for changes in legislation, suspension of activities of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, the Constitutional Court, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus

Anton Surapin (fota: Alaksiej Lapicki)

In 2012, a reporter and then a student of journalism department Anton Surapin spent a month in the KGB detention center for allegedly aiding the teddy bear air drop team. Continue reading »

Tags: Aleh Aheyeu, Anton Surapin, BAJ, Miensk

Administrative punishments for exercising right to peaceful assembly and expression of opinion in Belarus continues. Continue reading »

Tags: Alaksiej Lapicki, Foreign Ministry, human rights activists, Interior Ministry, Miensk, the Government, the Republic of Belarus, UNCHR, violations of the right to peaceful assembly and expression (Article 21 and Article 19 of ICCPR), Žodzina

The survey covers the period of April 1 — June 30, 2014. Its aim is to reveal short-term tendencies in the sphere of Human rights, social, political and economic situation in Belarus. Continue reading »

Tags: Assembly of Democratic NGOs of Belarus, freedom of association, Miensk, the Center for Legal Transformation

Riot militiamen arrested more than 20 activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus” who wanted to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Belarus in the centre of Minsk. Continue reading »

Tags: arrests, Independence Day, Miensk