Belarusan Ministry of Justice denied “Young Democrats” official registration

The Ministry of Justice denied the Youth public association “Young Democrats” official registration for the third time.

As the leader of the Youth public association Aliaksandra Vasilevich informed belngo.info, the officials appealed to a “bad handwriting” in the handwritten lists of the founders, as well as incomplete information about them, wrong fonts in the documents and a number of other faults. Aliaksandra Vasilevich called these reasons formal and contrived.

Among other things, the refusal by the Ministry of Justice contained the following statement: “Having studied the submitted documents the Ministry of Justice made a conclusion that the identities of the founding conference participants were not checked.” Apart from that, the lists of the participants from the Harodnia region were declared invalid.

“We believe that all the reasons for the registration refusal are formal. All the documents have been properly prepared and submitted on time. But the Ministry of Justice did not allow us to legalize our activities. The authorities do not like and are afraid of youth non-governmental organizations. However, we’ll make other attempts to register our organization either in Belarus or abroad, maybe in some other legal form,” commented Aliaksandra Vasilevich.

The last time the Ministry of Justice officials disapproved of the name of the organization “Young Democrats”.