News for 14 Apr 2010
14.04.2010 Krychau: democratic candidates demand to publish information about income of pro-governmental ones
Information about the income of candidates for the Krychau district Council of Deputies wasn’t published by the state press.
14.04.2010 Mahiliou: human rights defenders got authorities increase the number of places for agitation
The Mahiliou human rights defenders repeatedly addressed the Mahiliou procuracy and the Central Election Commission during the current election campaign with the aim to get the authorities determine more places for electoral agitation.
14.04.2010 International Federation for Human Rights adopted resolution on situation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The 37th Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) took place on 6-8 April in Yerevan. A number of urgent resolutions were adopted by the organization, including the Resolution on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders and the Appalling State of Fundamental Freedoms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that was presented by the Human Rights Center 'Viasna'. Here we propose to your attention the full text of this document.
14.04.2010 Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski elected Vice-President of International Federation for Human Rights again
On 6-8 April the 37th Congress of the International Forum for Human Rights of the FIDH (the International Federation for Human Rights) took place in Yerevan, Armeniya. About 300 delegates came there from different parts of the world, including the Belarusian human rights defenders Ales Bialiatski and Valiantsin Stefanovich.
14.04.2010 Homel: commissions ‘forget’ to inform democratic candidates about electoral meetings
Some constituency commissions of Homel ‘forgot’ to inform some of democratic candidates that they would have electoral meetings, whereas surnames of other such candidates weren’t even mentioned in the invitations to such meetings.
14.04.2010 ’Nasha Tolochinshchina’ created a gallery of portraits of pro-governmental candidates
Some interesting observations by Ales Mazhuha have been recently published at orsha.belarda.org.
14.04.2010 Homel: are pro-regime candidates allowed to put agitation in banned places?
Agitation materials of the candidate for the Homel regional Council of Deputies Aliaksandr Udodau, Chairperson of a department of the Belarusian railway, are put in the places that are prohibited for agitation.
14.04.2010 Newspaper of Babruisk town executive committee calls on electors to vote early and cast their votes for deputies of last convocation
The main printed organ of the Babruisk town executive committee, printed the article We Will Choose a Future for Our Town on Our Own. The article opens with a statement that all events that take place in the town ‘should be viewed through the prism of the upcoming elections’. Then its author, Aliaksandr Tsimafeyeu, mentions the presence of members of political parties in the lists of candidates, and adds that the main thing is not a ‘sympathetic status’, but ‘serving to the people’.
14.04.2010 Mahiliou: candidate again finds election commission drinking
While going round the precincts situated on the territory of his election constituency, Aliaksei Paulouski, a candidate for the Mahiliou city Council of Deputies, again found members of the Zavadskaya precinct election commission #3 drinking alcohol.
14.04.2010 Navapolatsk: another withdrawal from elections
Siarhei Sidarau, a member of the Belarusian Popular Front, addressed the election commission with the statement that he withdrew from the elections on his own will. He refused to provide any comments about his decision.
14.04.2010 Hrodna: candidate of BPF Party withdraws from elections
Mikola Lemianouski, a member of the Hrodna organization of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, refused to run for the Hrodna city Council of Deputies at election constituency #22, where he was registered as a candidate. He addressed the Hrodna city election commission with a detailed explanation of his position. He states that there is no real democratization of the electoral process despite the supplements that were introduced in the Election Code, and emphasizes that representatives of democratic parties weren’t included in precinct commissions (in particular, only 1 out of 16 nominees of the BPF Party was included in a precinct commission).
14.04.2010 Mahiliou: state financing is not enough for printing agitation materials
According to Aliaksei Paulouski, a candidate for the Mahiliou city and the Mahiliou regional Councils of Deputies, he managed to print agitation leaflets for 40% and 20% electors respectively for the means he had received from the state for this purpose.
14.04.2010 Salihorsk: executive committee ignores recommendation of the Central Election Commission
The electoral headquarters of candidate Aliaksei Valabuyeu received two denials to their applications for holding electoral pickets in the yards of the houses that are situated on the territory of the election constituency where the candidate is running. The officials state in their answers that there are enough places that had been officially determined for agitation meetings. Bear in mind that there are only two such places, the Budaunik stadium and the Budaunik Palace of Culture. Both of them are situated on the town outskirts, quite far from the majority of constituencies.
14.04.2010 Candidate gets excluded from electoral race for participation in opposition demonstration
Anastasiya Azarka, a candidate to the Rudauka local Council of Deputies and a member of the Young Belarus, was told in the election commission that she had been removed from the ballot.
14.04.2010 Homel: people in mufti shoot electoral picket on video
Yauhen Yakavenka and Kastus Zhukouski, members of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, are candidates for deputies of the Homel regional council. They have been holding electoral pickets in Homel for several days already. Mr. Zhukouiski held his first picket near the Festyvalny Culture Palace, without any incidents. The following day Zhukouski and Yakavenka started using a loudspeaker in their agitation work, which attracted a scrupulous attention of the local police. On 9 April policemen and people in mufti approached the picket near the culture palace and started shooting the action on video.
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