Supreme Court starts hearing justice ministry’s closure suit against Belarusian Women's Party "Nadzeya”
18:13, — Politics
The Supreme Court of Belarus on October 9 started hearing the justice ministry's suit to liquidate the Belarusian Women's Party "Nadzeya.”
In its bill filed in early September, the ministry charged that the party “persistently violates regulations currently in force, ignores requirements of the registering authority and has already received a written warning this year.”
At the beginning of the hearing, Nadzeya leader Alena Yaskova put forward a counter-suit against the justice ministry, accusing it of obstructing the legal activities of the party.
A representative of the ministry charged that Nadzeya did not have any officially registered legal address from June 1999 through November 2006. He claimed that the present legal address of the party is “fictitious,” as an inspection conducted on July 20 established that the premises at that address were unfit for work in the cold season, and that there were not either computers or the party’s documents there.
In addition, the representative of the plaintiff insisted that the party did not have the required number of officially registered chapters, had a poor level of organizational work, failed to properly keep membership records and promptly issue documents confirming party membership and failed to confirm the existence of the required membership necessary for the party’s activities.
Ms. Yaskova flatly rejected all of the ministry’s allegations.
