Human rights activist seeks justice in Supreme Court

Uladzimir Vyalichkin from Brest appealed to the Supreme Court of Belarus against the ban on picketing to support political prisoner Ales Byalyatski.

The human rights activist already has filed appeals to the Leninski district court of Brest and the regional court, but none of them took his side, Radio Racja reports.

“Firstly, the decision of the city executive committee restricts my rights to picketing. Secondly, the answer to me was signed by an unauthorized person. Under law, a reply to a picket application must be signed by the executive committee chair or a deputy chair. But it was signed by an office manager. He neither a deputy chair nor the chair of the Brest city executive committee, so he had no right to sign the answer,” Uladzimir Vyalichkin says.

According to him, previous experience of applying to Belarusian courts does not give hopes that the issue may be solved properly in the country. If the Supreme Court dismisses his appeal, he will apply to the UN Human Rights Committee.