The government fined the organization $73,000 for allegedly unpaid taxes on money received via European Union Tacis Programme grants (2003, overruled by the Supreme Court in 2004) and brought criminal proceedings against officials of the organization, including its chairman Taciana Proćka.
[2] In 2021 BHC became one of the victims of Alexander Lukashenko's nationwide repressions against independent media and human rights organizations in the wake of the Belarusian protests.
[3][4][5][6] On 1 October 2021, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee was forcibly liquidated by the Supreme Court.
The court used materials of some unspecified criminal case (probably with no verdict passed so far) to dissolute the BHC.
BHC was the penultimate registered human rights group in Belarus (the last one is Pravovaya iniciativa — The Legal Initiative, which is under of liquidation too).