The Gomel Railway Court recognized the Extremist Telegram channel of the Spring Human Rights Center and all its analogues in other social networks. The message about this distributed project activists.
Spring Center appeared in Belarus in 1996, but in 2003 it was liquidated as a legal entity. The reason for elimination was the participation of human rights defenders in observing the 2001 presidential election, which defeated Alexander Lukashenko.
In the beginning of mass protests in August 2020, the Center has become the main source of information about the fate of detainees and arrested. The project activists provided legal assistance to victims, led lists of political prisoners and statistics of arrests.
In the same year, most of the leaders and volunteers “Spring” were arrested in criminal cases of mass riots and tax evasion. Freedom left abroad and continue to work.
previously became known that since the repeated election of Lukashenko, at least 23 thousand people left for the presidential post in August 2020 from Belarus to Poland to Poland for permanent residence. Most of them requested refuge on humanitarian visas, another part moved under the program of emigration of qualified specialists.