News for 2 Nov 2010
02.11.2010 UN Human Rights Committee registered complaints of Belarusian citizens
The UN Human Rights Committee registered a complaint of five participants of the action that was held in 2009 in front of the Homel Region Police Department to mark the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of the former Interior Minister Yury Zakharanka. According to the human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka, the Committee officially informed the authors of the complaint about it.
02.11.2010 Dziarzhynsk: member of campaign team of Andrei Sannikau gets fined
On October 12 the volunteer Aliaksandr Tarnahurski was collecting signatures in support of the candidacy of Andrei Sannikau in a residential house, and when he left one of the doors, a police car arrived and policemen asked him what he had been doing. Tarnahurski said that he collected signatures, and showed his passport and the certificate of a member of Sannikau’s campaign team. Policemen detained him and drew up a report for absence of a reflector.
02.11.2010 Khotsimsk: nominees of NGO BPF ‘Adradzhenne’ weren’t included in precinct election commissions
The sitting of the Khotsimsk District Executive Committee on formation of the precinct election commission took place at 9.30 a.m. on 1 October.
02.11.2010 Central Election Commission denies that campaign team of Aliaksandr Lukashenka violated the electoral law
The
civil activists Mikita Krasnou and Viachaslau Dziyanau
received from the CEC a response to their complaint concerning the use of administrative resources for
collecting signatures in support of nomination Aliaksandr Lukashenka a
candidate for president. In particular, they pointed out that students of
Belarusian University of Informatics and Radio Electronics had to stand in
Lukashenka’s electoral pickets during their study time, and their work was
‘supervised’ by a the member of Lukashenka’s campaign team Aliaksandr Khmyl,
the university provost on education. The CEC Chairperson Lidziya Yarmoshyna
considers this complaint groundless.
02.11.2010 Brest region: some representatives of BPF Party included in precinct commissions
Some
of the representatives nominated by the Belarusian Popular Front to precinct
election commissions of the Brest region were included in the commission. In
particular, in the Drahichyn district the authorities included in the
commission 2 out of 5 nominees, in the Malaryta district – 2 out of 4, 1 - in
the Ivatsevichy district and 3 – in the Kobryn district.
02.11.2010 Ales Bialiatski addressed Presidential Administration and Prosecutor General
The
vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Ales
Bialiatski addressed the Prosecutor General of Belarus, Ryhor Vasilevich, and
the Presidential Administration of Belarus.
02.11.2010 Pinsk district: 70 precinct commissions formed for 5 minutes
On 1 November the joint sitting of the Pinsk District Executive Committee and the Presidium of the Pinsk District Council on formation of precinct election commissions took place. The opposition parties and democratic NGOs didn’t nominate any representatives to the precinct commissions, that’s why the ‘formation’ of all 70 commissions took very little time, a little more than 5 minutes.
02.11.2010 Mahiliou: discrepancy in the numbers of received signatures
According
to the information received by human rights activists from members of the
Kastrychnitski and the Leninski district election commissions, the greatest
number of signatures was collected for President Aliaksandr Lukashenka - 30,582.
Then come Aliaksei Mikhalevich with 24,196 signatures, Uladzimir Niakliayeu
with 16,598 signatures, Ryhor Kostuseu with 16,545 signatures and Yaraslau Ramanchuk
with 12,835 signatures. Members of the campaign teams also collected 12,381
signatures for Mikalai Statkevich, 8,981 – for Andrei Sannikau, 9,044 – for
Dzmitry Us, 7,123 – for Viktar Tsiareshchanka, 6,047 – for Vital Rymasheuski
and only 57 signatures for Yury Hlushakou.
02.11.2010 Slonim: executive officer of Slonim District Executive Committee ‘knows nothing’ about precinct election commissions
The
long-term observer from Slonim Ivan Sheha keeps visiting the executive officer
of the executive committee Alena Machalina and phoning her several times a day
in order to find the date and place of the sitting of the committee on
formation of the precinct commissions. However, she just answers ‘I don’t know
anything yet’ each time.
02.11.2010 Mahiliou region: democratic opposition delegated 121 representatives to precinct election commissions
818
precinct election commissions will be established in the Mahiliou region. 9,685
people were nominated to them, 3,571 of which – by political parties and NGOs,
4,286 – by collection of electors’ signatures and 1,828 – by collectives of
institutions and enterprises.
02.11.2010 Mazyr: ruling about ‘cultural program’ for international observers disappeared
Documents disappear from the website of the Mazyr District Executive Committee after publications of Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections.
02.11.2010 Precinct commissions are formed secretly in Biaroza and Zhodzina
The
Biaroza District Executive Committee (DEC) ignored the delegation by the Brest
Regional Council of the Belarusian Popular Front Party of three members of the
party to the sitting of the Biaroza DEC on formation of the precinct election
commissions.
02.11.2010 Mahiliou: signatures were counted in absence of observers
The Mahiliou human rights defenders Barys Bukhel and Aliaksei Kolchyn did not get to the sittings of the district election commissions, where the count of the number of signatures in support of the candidates for the presidency took place.
02.11.2010 Baranavichy: observer not permitted to observe verification of signature sheets
On 30 October observer Siarhei Housha visited the Baranavichy
City Territorial Election Commission and asked the duty committee member Leanid
Chukho, whether the commission sitting for distribution of the signature sheets
among the commission members had taken place. Leanid Aslanavich Chukho (Soviet
Army colonel, retired, nominated to the commission by the Belarusian Union of
Officers, a member of the campaign team of Aliaksandr Lukashenka) told him that
it hadn’t taken place and recommended not to hurry, because the signature
sheets were stored in a vault, and observers would be surely invited to the sitting.
Siarhei Housha reminded the commission member that he had submitted to the
commission a request for being informed about the time and place of the
verification of signature sheets, to which Mr. Chukho replied that the
committee would consider the application.
02.11.2010 Maladechna: district election commissions stages shows for observers
The Maladechna District Election Commission officially invites observers to its sittings, but when they come ahead of time the commission members get confused and refuse to let them in.
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