News for August 2012
15.08.2012 Polatsk: prosecutor's office finds nothing illegal in canvassing at work
Election observer Yury Belski filed two addresses to the Polatsk City Prosecutor's Office during the canvassing campaign. In the both cases described by him representatives of the electoral team of a pro-governmental candidate Natallia Huivik who were state officials collected signatures in support of her candidacy during the working hours.
15.08.2012 Salihorsk observers visit 6 election commissions: none of them work
On 14 August election observer Uladzimir Shyla visited three precinct election commissions - #12, #13 and #14. None of them worked at about 5 p.m., though the working day ends at 7 p.m.
15.08.2012 Siarhei Vazniak asks Central Election Commission to review rules of determination of places for electoral agitation
Siarhei Vazniak, a representative of the Belarusian leftist party “Fair World”, applied to the Central Election Commission with the request to abolish the ruling of the Hrushauskaya constituency election commission #98 about the determination of places for electoral agitation.
15.08.2012 Yanina Liasneuskaya appealed against court verdict on children's coloring books
Yanina Liasneuskaya, an activist of the “Our House” civil campaign, appealed the verdict of the Orsha District and City Court concerning the distribution of children's coloring books which allegedly promoted violence to the Vitsebsk Region Court.
15.08.2012 Baranavichy: observers asks prosecutor to discriminate into forgery of minutes of commission's sitting
Election observer Siarhei Housha is convinced that the head of constituency election commission #5 Tatsiana Latyshava and its secretary Tatsiana Latyshava have forged minutes of sitting #1 of the commission.
15.08.2012 Hlybokaye prosecutor's office is looking of “Tell the Truth” activist Yaraslau Bernikovich
The most probable reason of the summons to the prosecutor's office is the call to help to adherents of boycott, published at his Facebook account. Journalist Kastus Shytal, who wrote about Bernikovich's initiative at the independent regional website westki.info, has been already interrogated about it.
15.08.2012 Brest: Hanna Kanius gets warned by election commission
The head of the Brest organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Hanna Kanius who awaits registration as a candidate for the Parliament at Brest-Western election constituency #1, received a warning from the constituency election commission.
15.08.2012 Radio “Racyja” journalist gets a warning
Officers of the prosecutor’s office told Henadz Barbarych that they had listened to all his programs made in 2011 and they had lots of disagreement. Henadz Barbarych was summoned to Minsk prosecutor’s office in connection with a check-up of Radio Racyia activities, started after the searches on May 2.
15.08.2012 Human Rights Defenders join the campaign of the Belarusian Association of Journalists for the release of Siarhei Basharymau and Anton Surapin
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” joined the initiative of the Belarusian Association of Journalists aimed at the change of the restraint to journalist Anton Surapin who has been kept in the pre-trial prison of the KGB since 13 July. The human rights defenders also solicit for the change of the restraint to real estate agent Siarhei Basharymau, who, together with Surapin, received charges of assistance to unlawful crossing of the state boundary of the Republic of Belarus (Part 6 of Article 16 and Part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code) and their release on bail.
14.08.2012 Political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets appeals against illegal censorship
Political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets filed two complaints to the Department of Corrections and the Prosecutor General's Office at the ungrounded ban for political prisoners Yauhen Vaskovich and Mikalai Statkevich to hold correspondence with him, bchd.info reports.
14.08.2012 Haradok District Court turns down oppositionists' appeals against non-inclusion in precinct election commissions
The court turned down the appeals of the Vitsebsk council of the Belarusian Popular Front and the regional committee of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) demanding to turn down the ruling of the Haradok District Executive Committee concerning the establishment of PECs.
14.08.2012 Lidziya Yarmosyna: monitoring of verification of signatures “is not based on the law”
The head of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna stated this in her answer to the Mahiliou human rights defender Aliaksei Kolchyn, registered as an observer at constituency election commission #85.
14.08.2012 Ideologist of Svetlahorsk car park “holds a talk” with a canvasseur
In Svetlahorsk, the ideologist of car park #5 Anton Satarau summonsed to his office a member of the electoral team of a prospective candidate for the Parliament, the head of the Svetlahorsk district organization of the Belarusian leftist party “Fair World” Siarhei Daineka.
14.08.2012 Head of Pinsk city organization of the Belarusian Popular Front applies to prosecutor's office
Aliaksandr Ramanovich is of the opinion that the comments at one of the local websites presented harm to his honor and dignity. He tries to stop the black PR campaign against himself by applying to the prosecutor's office.
14.08.2012 Alena Dubovik demands compensation for moral damage resulting from prison conditions
Alena Dubovik, detained together with friends during a concert held on 24 March at the Culture House of the Minsk Tractor Plant, sued the main police department of the Minsk City Executive Committee for compensating the moral damage incurred as a result of her stay in the detention facility in Akrestsin Street in Minsk.
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