"From the City Council received a reply to our request. Written that we were refused because we request permission to march and rally in unauthorized places, and by conducting our actions would violate the law. Actually we do not break the law," - said a member of the CCP BNF Jan Dzyarzhautsau.

For mass actions in Vitebsk identified three places each - on the outskirts of the city. CCP BPF activists disagree with the order of things. They have applied for a march from Vitebsk Station to Lenin Square, there to spend more and picket, said Jan Dzyarzhautsau:

"In this day (November 7), directly beside the statue of Lenin, we would like to talk to residents about the destructive role of the communist ideology for development of Belarus, on the activities of the Communists to destroy the national culture, language and identity of the Belarusian people. We were not allowed, and it was predictable : Mayor of the ban knew the police, who sent me a letter that they would not enter into a contract for security measures. "

Jan Dzyarzhautsau draws attention to the fact that the response of the regional department of the Ministry of Interior registered discrepancy decision of the Vitebsk City, which governs the procedure for applying for mass action:

"The decision of the authorities is that we first need to provide contracts with utilities, medical and police service shares. Later City Council decides to give permission or not. However, police council write to me that the contract for policing conclude impractical, because they know that the City Council has refused us. Why we are required to implement this decision of the mass actions, even if it violates the police? "

By the way, the CCP BPF activist received three out maintenance actions - all of the services listed executive committee. Of housing and communal enterprises responded that the contract for clean-up, he turned to the wrong address, even though it is a company specified in a special decision of the Vitebsk City. And from the central clinic wrote that do not conclude a contract, because November 7, many physicians weekend and send the car "first aid" to share is not possible.

Dzyarzhautsau emphasizes one more thing: only the executive committee of the Interior Ministry and the regional answer him in Belarusian. From the clinic and Housing said in Russian, and an activist considers this a violation of the law on citizens, which requires officials to respond to the language of the written appeal.

Viasna Human Rights Center