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UN Registers Another "Parasite's" Complaint

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UN Registers Another "Parasite's" Complaint

Now the Belarusian government will have to think how to answer the harrowing question.

September 10, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) considered Viktar Rubtsou's complaint, who is one of the Homel activists of the spring protest events of 2017. Now the Belarusian government will have to seek for the answer to the question of why the authorities persecute opponents with arrests for participating in a peaceful protest against the decree on "parasites", Homel Viasna reports.

In the complaint filed with the UN Committee on Human Rights under the number 3239/2018, the blogger tells how he, along with others (about three thousand people), took part in an unauthorized street procession and a rally, which took place in Homel on February 19, 2017.

He notes, that the participants peacefully protested against Decree No. 3 "On the Prevention of Social Dependence," and then dispersed without any incidents.

"No one has any doubts that the protest was peaceful. Nevertheless, I, as well as other active participants, were summoned to the police, where we were accused of violating the established procedure for holding a mass event. I was serving a 14-day arrest in a temporary detention facility from March 13 to 27. In accordance with the internal procedure, we applied for obtaining the authorities' permission for holding the protest event in advance, 15 days before the event. But got a ban," – Viktar Rubtsou shared excerpts from his complaint.

Leanid Sudalenka, the human rights defender helping citizens to defend their rights at the international level, stressed that Homel activists spent over 60 days in the detention facility and had to pay large administrative fines for participating in the spring protests.

Almost all of them have used the right to file individual complaints with the UN Committee on Human Rights.

Let's remind, that March 13, the judge of the Central District court of Homel sent the oppositionist Aliaksandr Piskunou to prison for 14 days. According to the judge, the rally and the street procession that took place in Homel on February 19 was illegal.

The regional judge Aleh Kharoshka came to similar conclusions after consideration of the cassation complaint. He actually left the prisoner's claims about violation of his rights to express his opinion and his rights on peaceful assembly without consideration.

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