20.07.2015 Lists of banned campaigning locations announced in all but one districts of Viciebsk region
All the official websites of district executive committees in the Viciebsk region have published information on places prohibited for organizing pickets to campaign for the nomination of presidential candidates. The only exception is Orša district.
19.07.2015 Presidential contender Shulhan taken from CEC to police station
Government House guard called the police on suspicion that Mr Shulhan had come to the CEC to register the nominating group being under the influence.
19.07.2015 Not all government websites in Mahilioŭ region publish lists of prohibited campaigning locations
As of July 18, five out of 21 official websites of district authorities in Mahilioŭ region have not published decisions by local executive committees on places prohibited for staging campaigning pickets.
19.07.2015 Drahičyn: authorities fail to announce list of prohibited campaigning locations
According to the schedule of the election campaign, local executive and administrative bodies should have been no later than on July 17 announced the list of places where it is forbidden to hold pickets in order to collect signatures in support of a candidate for President.
19.07.2015 Officials in Sluck and Pinsk districts also ban campaigning in crowded places
As in the other regions of Belarus, the executive committee of Sluck and Pinsk district have prohibited to organize campaigning pickets in the most crowded places.
19.07.2015 Smarhoń: government moving campaigners away from its buildings
Before the presidential election that took place in 2010, the Smarhoń district executive committee prohibited holding pickets in order to collect signatures in the places impeding the movement of vehicles and pedestrians; posing a danger to the life and health of citizens; at railway transport facilities; at the entrances to the organizations and religious institutions.
19.07.2015 Homieĺ: campaigning pickets banned at bus stations
On July 17, the Homieĺ city executive committee announced the list of places forbidden for picketing to collect signatures in support of presidential candidates. The decision of July 15 differs from the previous similar legal acts adopted in the last elections to local councils (2014) and the presidential campaign in 2010 by imposing a ban on collecting signatures at bus stations, railway stations and at the territory near the stations.
19.07.2015 Kruhlaje executive committee cancels own decision on prohibited picketing locations
The website of the Kruhlaje district executive committee has published a new decision "On the determination of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect voters' signatures for nomination of candidates for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus". The decision of the executive committee is dated July 15.
19.07.2015 Babrujsk: campaigning opportunities expanded
The official website of the Babrujsk City Executive Committee published on July 17 a list of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect voters' signatures for nomination of presidential candidates. The document was adopted on July 16.
17.07.2015 “Human Rights Defenders For Free Elections” to maintain close contacts with OSCE ODIHR assessment mission
Today, the chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski, Chair of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Aleh Hulak and member of Viasna’s Board Uladzimir Labkovich met with representatives of the OSCE ODIHR election monitoring assessment mission – Mr. Vladimir Misev, OSCE/ODIHR Election Adviser, and Ms. Tatyana Bogussevich, OSCE/ODIHR Senior Election Adviser.
17.07.2015 CEC registers campaign teams of 3 presidential candidates
According to BelaPAN, at its today’s meeting the Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered three initiative groups for nominating presidential candidates: the incumbent President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, Chairman of the Belarusian Party of the Left "Fair World" Siarhei Kaliakin and Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Siarhei Haidukevich.
17.07.2015 Baranavičy: collecting signatures is only possible in desolate districts
The official website of the Baranavičy city executive committee has published a decision “On the definition of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect signatures for the nomination of candidates for the President of Belarus."
17.07.2015 Biaroza executive committee expands list of forbidden places ahead of elections
The Biaroza district executive committee has expanded the number of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect voters' signatures for the nomination of presidential candidates.
17.07.2015 Ongoing harassment of Tajik activists: 13 years in prison for Maksud Ibragimov, extradition request from Belarus for Shabnam Hudoydodova
According to the BBC Russian service, a court in Tajikistan pronounced yesterday a sentence to the leader of a youth public organization “Youth of Tajikistan for Revival”, Maksud Ibragimov. He was accused of involvement in a banned opposition movement "Group of 24", formerly harassed for extremism by the Tajik authorities, and eventually sentenced to 13 years in prison.
17.07.2015 Freelance journalist Dzmitry Lupach to be tried on July 23
The trial of freelance journalist Dzmitry Lupach will be held at the Hlubokaye District Court.
