News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
15.10.2010 Sensation: police lieutenant colonel tells how elections are rigged in Belarus
Ballot boxes are sealed in a way that it is a child’s play to move this seal and throw in false ballots.
15.10.2010 Electoral fuss in Orsha district continues
Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections have already written about the numerous abolitions and amendments of rulings of the Orsha officials that concern the electoral campaign. Such things still continue there.
15.10.2010 Maladechna District Executive Committee changes list of places banned for electoral picketing
The website of the Maladechna District Election Commission finally published the information about amendment of the ruling enlisting the places that were banned for holding electoral pickets.
15.10.2010 Liozna: provocations at pickets
Officers of the Liozna District Executive Committee paid a visit to the electoral pickets of Ryhor Kostuseu and Ales Mikhalevich. There were also some unidentified persons who tried to tear leaflets with the biographies of the candidates out of the hands of the members of their electoral teams who held the pickets.
15.10.2010 Lidziya Yarmoshyna: Belarusian TV is not ready to hold debates live
The Central Election Commission issued a document on holding debates between presidential candidates
15.10.2010 Yeziaryshcha: schoolmaster warns teachers against signing for anyone but Lukashenka
As stated by the collector of signatures for Uladzimir Niakliayer Leanid Autukhou, the teachers and the technical personnel of the school of the town of Yeziaryshcha refuse to sign in support of nomination of any candidates for president but Aliaksandr Lukashenka, as the school administration threatens not to prolong the labor contracts to those who would do it. The threats were voiced at a general assembly of the school staff.
15.10.2010 Horki: information about places of work of election commission is kept in secret
’It is not easy to find about the places of work of members of the Horki District Election Commission’, says the correspondent of the newspaper Uzgorak Illia Zaranok. When I asked to ‘disclose the secret’, the officer of the Horki District Executive Committee and the member of the Horki District Election Commission Katsiaryna Karotkaya answered that this information was accessible for workers of the district executive committee only and the electors didn’t need to know it.
15.10.2010 Collection of signatures for Lukashenka is still accompanied with violations
Doctors of the Baranavichy polyclinic #7 (located in Budaunikou Avenue, 37), invented a new technique of collecting signatures in support of nomination of Aliaksandr Lukashenka as a candidate for the presidential election.
15.10.2010 Babruisk: intimidation of members of electoral team of Vital Rymasheuski continues
One of the co-founders of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, the member of the electoral team of Mr. Rymasheuski Iryna Navumovich faced with pressurization from the side of an unidentified official of the Babruisk Town Executive Committee.
14.10.2010 Salihorsk: human rights defenders obtained a copy of ‘Plan of organizational ideological provision of the election of President of the Republic of Belarus on 19 December 2010 on the territory of the Salihorsk district’
The document was signed on 23 September by the Chairperson of the Salihorsk District Executive Committee A Rymasheuski, the head of the organizational and personnel department V.Kokhan and the Deputy Chairperson on ideology, T.Subotsina.
14.10.2010 Central Election Commission warns electoral team of Uladzimir Niakliayeu
The Central Electoral Commission issued a warning to the electoral team of the potential candidate for president Uladzimir Niakliayeu for an alleged violation of the electoral legislation.
14.10.2010 Hary Pahaniaila sues Lidziya Yarmoshyna
The Maskouski District Court of Minsk turned down the lawsuit of the well-known Belarusian lawyer Hary Pahaniaila against Lidziya Yarmoshyna. Mr. Pahaniaila, the Chairperson of the legal commission of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, asked the court to declare unlawful the actions of the Chairperson of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna and oblige her to consider his complaint to the CEC not individually, but collegially, in cooperation with other members of the CEC, as it is demanded by the Belarusian laws.
14.10.2010 Brest: workers of relics plant are forced to sign for Lukashenka
As stated by workers of the Brest relics plant Slavianka, the administration of the plant ordered all of them to bring their passports and sign in support of the nomination of Aliaksandr Lukashenka as a candidate for the presidential election. The administration explained this order by saying that the enterprise was subordinated to the presidential administration and the refusal to support Lukashenka could bring troubles to it.
14.10.2010 Brest Regional Court obliged Biaroza District court to consider lawsuit of Tamara Shchapiotkina
The resident of the town of Biaroza (Brest region) Tamara Shchapiotkina received an answer of the Brest Regional Court to her appeal against the verdict of the Biaroza District Court that had refused to start civil proceedings concerning her non-inclusion in the Biaroza District Election Commission.
14.10.2010 Baranavichy: local mailmen are obliged to deliver leaflets praising Belarusian state
The mailmen of Baranavichy are made to sign the undertaking to distribute the leaflets titled 'State is for the people! Everyone must know it!' According to the imprint, the leaflets were produced by open stock company Chyrvonaya Zorka. The total circulation of the leaflet is quite impressing – 48,000 copies.
