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Such calls may soon appear on Belarusians websites. There was a criminal case initiated after a libel comment on the local website in Vileika town, near Maladzechna (Belarus). Users who had left their comments to the news on the site are prosecuted for aspersion and insulting. Corresponding authorities are now trying to identify these people. This is the second attempt of the authorities to punish for incorrect comments in the web during recent time.

When: Tuesday, 6. July 2010 To: Sunday, 15. August 2010 Where: Вильнюс, Latako 3 Host: Белорусский дом прав человека Contact: Анна Герасимова (

“In the Republic of Belarus everything is the other way around – during the E-day procedures are more-less followed, but in the evening, during the count, there is total lawlessness at polling stations,” some observers from the team of more than 30 participant of the international observation mission at the presidential election in the Republic of Poland shared. The joint Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Swedish mission was organised by the Election Observation: Theory and Practice project with support of Belarusian HRH in Vilnius.

A mission of more than 30 Belarusian, Lithuanian and Swedish young election observers are heading for Republic of Poland for this weekend. The monitors are going to observe the quality of election as Poles are voting for a new Head of State after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash in the Russian Federation.

On 10 June, the Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs of Republic of Belarus, together with the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius, held a briefing “Art. 193-1: Criminal Prosecution for NGOs’ Activity in Belarus”. The event took place several hours before the start of IV Regional Congress of NGOs, which gathered representatives of Central and Eastern Europe,
Caucasus and Baltic States in Vilnius.

The application for the 2011 session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University is now available.

A month after the newspaper Viciebskij Kurjer was banned from circulation, the Vicebsk city court has fined Aleh Barshcheuski, its editor-in-chief for keeping on distributing it. Thus, Belarusian authorities have made yet another violation of freedom of expression and the media.

1 July 2010 will mark a new era for Belarusian internet users. Many internet websites may be blocked. On that day, regulations prepared by the Ministry of Communication and Information will come into force, concerning material that contradicts law – pornography, extremism, terrorism, etc. Experts say the new regulations can affect sources that may pose a threat to the authorities.

Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs of Belarus in cooperation with the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius cordially invite to a briefing “Art. 193-1: criminal prosecution for NGOs activity in Belarus”