The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

08.02.2014 Homel region: courts uphold non-inclusion of “Fair World” members in election commissions

February 7, two appeals against the non-inclusion of members of the Belarusian Left Party "Fair World" in precinct election commissions were considered by courts.

08.02.2014 Aliaksandr Sakharuk regularly deprived of wage bonuses for membership in independent trade union

Crane operator of the 5th grade Aliaksandr, who works in the Office of mechanization No. 127 of Building Trust No. 8 in Brest, is strugglng for his accession to the collective agreement.

08.02.2014 Vitsebsk region has few places for election campaigning

The official websites of executive committees and regional newspapers published the decisions of local authorities, who determined theplaces for outdoors meetings with voters. The number of such places differs in each district, and quite often such places are quite far from the town centers.

08.02.2014 Concealment of information about the results of PECs formation appealed to Central Election Commission

A resident of Biaroza Tamara Shchapiotkina appealed to the CEC, pointing that the meeting of the Biaroza District Executive Committee on establishment of precinct election commissions did not comply with the principle of openness and transparency, guaranteed by Article 13, Part 1 of the Electoral Code. She also mentions that according to Art. Of the Law "On local government and self-government in the Republic of Belarus" the local administration is carried out including the principle of transparency.

07.02.2014 Polish MP met Natalia Pinchuk

Adam Lipinski met the spouse of political prisoner Ales Bialatski in Minsk. The reports come from Polish media.

07.02.2014 Vital Rymasheuski fined for "groundless call to police"

Former presidential candidate, co-chairman of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Vital Rymashevski was fined 16 basic units for participation in a picket near the Kamarouski market.

07.02.2014 No representatives of opposition parties in PECs in Mahiliou region

Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World” and the United Civil Party nominated 19 and 10 members to the precinct election commissions of the Mahiliou region respectively.

07.02.2014 Journalist summoned to prosecutor's office

Yury Dziashuk, independent journalist from Buiarozauka. received a subpoena from the Lida District Prosecutor's Office, to come to Assistant Attorney Zinouyeu on February 10.

07.02.2014 Prison administration shoot Ihar Alinevich's meeting with his parents on video

The administration of the Navapolatsk penal colony recorded the recent short-term meeting of political prisoner Ihar Alinevich on video and audio.

07.02.2014 Only nine partisans got incluled in the PECs created in Brest region

9,608 people were included in the 954 precinct election commissions created in the Brest region. The commissions are dominated by people who were nominated “by citizens” – 4,094 representatives (or 42.6 %).

07.02.2014 Aleh Ramashkevich warned for handing out newspapers in Vialikaya Berastavitsa

On February 6 at a local civil society activist Aleh Ramashkevich was invited to a meeting of the Berastavitsa District Election Commission, and later – to a meeting of a constituency election commission.

07.02.2014 Anarchy in Mahiliou detention center

The head of this institution Krasnou can not establish who is kept in the same cells with the people who are convicted for administrative offenses. This follows from his response to an activist of the United Civil Party Anton Kastsou, who was serving a three-night arrest for organizing protests against the introduction of a new tax on motor cars, "Stop Tax".

07.02.2014 Biaroza: 43 PECs established in three minutes

43 precinct election commission were established at a meeting of the Biaroza District Executive Committee. Participants of the meeting were handed down the lists of members of the PECs.

07.02.2014 Palitviazni.info: The Chronicles of Belarusian Political Prisoners

Human Rights Center Viasna and Polish organization Foundation for the Development of Democratic Initiatives published book Palitviazni.info: The Chronicles of Belarusian Political Prisoners

07.02.2014 Journalist Threatened after Writing an Article about Presumed Pedophile

The journalist for TUT.by Katsiaryna Siniuk received a threatening SMS after the portal published an article about a criminal case being handled over a businessman possibly involved in debauchery of youth.