Belarus: Stifling the promotion of human rights\n\n

Belarus: Stifling the promotion of human rights\n\n

Index Number: EUR 49/004/2004
Date Published: 28 March 2004
Categories: Belarus, Europe And Central Asia

This report focuses on curtailments of the rights to freedom of association and assembly, and infringements on the right to freedom of expression, as experienced by various human rights defenders in Belarus. The cases mentioned in this report include closures of human rights organizations, arbitrary detention of individuals and members of trade unions and pressure on independent media outlets, including independent trade union newspapers and individual journalists.