News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
11.10.2010 Hrodna district: detention of activist of electoral team of Andrei Sannikau
On 10 October the activist of the electoral team of Mr. Sannikau Tatsiana Iliuchak was detained not far from the border crossing point Bruzgi where she was collecting signatures in his support. The border guards drew up a report about violation of the regime of stay in the border zone by her, after which she was released. Tatsiana may receive an administrative punishment in the case the report is passed to court.
11.10.2010 Pinsk: state-owned press fails to present timely information about change of rules of electoral campaigning
A notice about introduction of amendments to the ruling of the Pinsk District Executive Committee About determining the places that are banned for picketing aimed at collecting signatures was published in edition #80 of the state-owned newspaper Polesskaya Pravda only 12 days after the introduction of these amendments.
11.10.2010 Orsha: electoral pickets can be put anywhere
The Orsha Town Executive Committee removed all prohibitions on holding electoral pickets for collection of signatures in support of nomination of candidates for the presidential election.
08.10.2010 Navalukoml: activist of electoral teams of Uladzimir Niakliayeu and Mikalai Statkevich signed out of psychiatric asylum after 15-day detention
The 50-year-old resident of the town of Navalukoml who intended to collect signatures for the nomination of Uladzimir Niakliayeu and Mikalai Statkeivich as candidates for President of the Republic of Belarus has been released from the Lepel psychiatric asylum after spending 15 days there.
08.10.2010 Vitsebsk: state-owned newspaper ’Vitsbichy’ writes only about one candidate
The article Many People near Picket (published in the issue of Vitsbichy for 7 October 2010), published in the city newspaper describes the successful work of collectors of signatures for nomination of Aliaksandr Lukashenka for the presidential election. The author tells the readers the precise location of the electoral picket – ‘at the crossing of Lenin Street and Frunze Avenue, near the book office’, and even offers a description – ‘a sign with the inscription ‘Collection of signatures for the nomination of Lukashenka Aliaksandr Ryhoravich a candidate for President of the Republic of Belarus’ and a desk with the Constitution and the Electoral Code on it’.
08.10.2010 Head of Slutsk district branch of Uladzimir Niakliayeu’s electoral team is dismissed from work
Anatol Yurevich, the head of the electoral team of the democratic candidate Uladzimir Niakliayeu in the Slutsk district, was informed about the breach of the labor contract. On 7 October he was invited to the personnel department of the Slutsk building site of Minskenerhaspetsramont where he was working as a chief foreman and was proposed to sign the notice about the breach of the contract.
08.10.2010 New facts of forced signing for Aliaksandr Lukashenka
A worker of the central city library of Brest phoned to the editorial board of the Brestsiy Kurier newspaper and told that the administration of the library obliged all its workers to bring their passport and sign in support of the nomination of Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s candidacy for the presidential election.
08.10.2010 Collector of signatures in support of Uladzimir Niakliayeu is not let in Salihorsk dormitories
On 5 October Andrei Tychyna came to the dormitory of the Salihorsk Pedagogical College to collect signatures for the potential presidential candidate Uladzimir Niakliayeu. However, the janitor refused to let him without permission of the college administration. On 7 October he addressed the Deputy Chairperson of the college on education (and also the college ideologist), L.Rumiantsava, but received a refusal with reference to prohibition to collect signatures in the dormitories of educational establishments.
08.10.2010 Mahiliou Regional Court turned down lawsuit of ‘Fair World’
On 7 October the judge of the Mahiliou Regional Court Sviatlana Stalmakhova considered the lawsuit of the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World concerning the non-inclusion of its representative Anatol Zauyalau in the Mahiliou Regional Election Commission.
08.10.2010 Maladechna: state media pay most attention to Lukashenka’s candidacy
The state-owned newspapers of Maladechna mention Lukashenka near all materials concerning the presidential election, whereas all other potential candidates for President of the Republic of Belarus were mentioned only once, in connection with the registration of their electoral teams.
07.10.2010 Baranavichy Town Executive Committee refuses to provide information about places of work of members of election commissions
On 1 October the the Baranavichy human rights defenders Sarhei Housha and Karnei Piatrovich applied to the Deputy Chairperson of the Baranavichy Town Executive Committee Dz. Kastsiukevich with the request to provide them with information about the place of work of each member of the Baranavichy Town Election Commission, because state officials cannot constitute more than 1/3 of a territorial election commission, and the implementation of this legal norm couldn’t be verified without such information.
07.10.2010 Vitsebsk: administration of trading center ‘Contingent’ has pretensions to collectors of signatures
The administrator of the trading center Contingent tried to hinder the work of a picket of the electoral team of Uladzimir Niakliayeu. The conflict was resolved only after a telephone call to the Vitsebsk City Executive Committee.
07.10.2010 Salihorsk activists receive standard runarounds from Central Election Commission
Several residents of Salihorsk addressed the CEC chairperson with the demand not to register the electoral team of Aliaksandr Lukashenka (and later – to annul its registration). However, all answers include a standard formulation: ‘A decision to deny registration to an initiative group of citizens nominating a candidate for President of the Republic of Belarus is taken by the Central Election Commission on the grounds stipulated by the Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus. In your address, you haven’t drawn any juridical grounds for non-registration of the initiative group for nomination of the acting Head of the State a candidate for President of the Republic of Belarus.’
07.10.2010 Barysau: ’technical reasons’ increased attendance of Ramanchuk’s picket
On 6 October the Barysau activists of the electoral team of the representative of the United Civil Party Yaraslau Ramanchuk held their first pickets to collect signatures in support of nomination of his candidacy for the presidential election. The UCP Chairperson Anatol Liabedzka and Mr. Ramanchuk came to these actions to talk with the electors.
07.10.2010 Violations during collection of signatures for Lukashenka’s candidacy continue throughout Belarus
On 6 October a picket organized by the ‘state NGO’ Belaya Rus was held in front of the regional therapeutic and diagnostic center in Mahilou.
