News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
09.12.2010 Yarmoshyna: there can be no equal conditions for an unemployed and President
The Deputy Chairperson of the Central Election Commission Vadzim Ipatau has given an expert evaluation to the appeals of Siarhei Kaliakin and Halina Samdzianava.
09.12.2010 National-Bolsheviks detained for anti-Lukasneka picket
About ten people took part in the first pre-electoral picket of National-Bolshevists. The leader of the Belarusian National-Bolshevists Yauhen Kontush stated that the action's aim was to protest against the policy of the current authorities.
09.12.2010 Democratic candidates refuse to withdraw from the election
During a picket near the Presidential Administration on 9 December Uladzimir Niakliayeu called all democratic candidates to withdraw from the ‘election’.
09.12.2010 Traffic police detained the Young Front leader Dzmitry Dashkevich and seized his car
The young leader was detained in the centre of Minsk and taken to the police department of Pershamaiski district.
09.12.2010 Central Election Commission refuses to give air time to Niakliayeu and Sannikau
The Central Election Commission dismissed the request of the presidential candidates to be provided with additional time on TV.
09.12.2010 Central Election Commission pursues the tactics of ‘secret rulings’
An observer from Mahilou complains about the concealment of information by the Central Election Commission.
09.12.2010 Homel: member of electoral team of Uladzimir Niakliayeu attacked by university provost
According to representatives of the university, the activist campaigned for Niakliayeu ‘improperly’.
09.12.2010 Dashkevich, Pushkin… authorities start provocations against opposition activists
The artist and political activist Ales Pushkin was detained at 3.45 p.m. in his house in the settlement of Bobr of the Pukhavichy district.
09.12.2010 Vitsebsk: two electoral meetings of Vital Rymasheuski get disrupted
The agreement for the electoral meeting with workers of the TV and Radio Company Vitsebsk was received in advance. However, before its beginning the Deputy Chairperson of the company Vadzim Lapatsinski stated that it was a high security object, that’s why the candidate wouldn’t be let in and even passing the people his leaflets wouldn’t be allowed.
09.12.2010 Vitsebsk: authorities ban a picket calling to boycott the election
The Kastrychnitski District Executive Committee prohibited the member of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front Yan Dziarzhautsau to hold a picket for boycotting the presidential election. The formal reason for the ban is that the picket site (Lenin Square) is allegedly occupied by the electoral picket of the presidential candidate Uladzimir Niakliayeu.
09.12.2010 Slonim: war on agitation posters
The Slonim activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy and the Belarusian Popular Front addressed the Slonim District Police Department and the Slonim District Election Commission in connection with the counteraction to posting the posters of their candidates in the places where it is officially allowed to do it according to Ruling #967 of the Slonim District Executive Committee of 22 November 2010.
08.12.2010 Miory: policemen don’t know electoral laws
A police inspector told Zmitser Palcheuski to stop handing out leaflets in support of Uladzimir Niakliayeu alleging that only the candidate or his proxy could distribute any printed materials.
08.12.2010 Let's say 'No!' to forced early voting together
Administrative resource is still widely used all regions of the country to secure mass early voting.
07.12.2010 Central Election Commission: car rally for Lukashenka was unlawful, but no one is guilty
The Human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovich received a response to his complaint, in which he asked the Central Election Commission to bring to justice members of the rally We Are for Father! (i.e. for Lukashenka). As previously reported, the rally started in St Petersburg and was organized by the Russian public associations Slavic Brothers and Autoradioclub.
07.12.2010 Homel: human rights defender tries to return confiscated manuals for observers through court
On 30 November officers of the Ashmiany customs office examined the personal belongings of the Homel human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka who was returning home from Vilnius. They confiscated from him 10 copies of Instructions for Short-term Observers at Presidential Election of Belarus.
