15.07.2015 Authorities list sites prohibited for collecting signatures to nominate candidates for presidency in Minsk
Minsk City Executive Committee has determined the places banned for picketing in order to collect voters' signatures for nomination of candidates for President of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk.
15.07.2015 Valiantsin Stefanovich: provisions of Electoral Code of Belarus prohibiting boycott are contrary to CIS Convention "On standards of democratic elections, electoral rights and freedoms"
In its report on the results of the observation of the first week of the presidential election campaign, the public election observation campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" has already noted that the provisions of the Electoral Code that prohibit calling for a boycott of the elections are contrary to the Convention of the Commonwealth of Independent States "On Standards of Democratic Elections, Electoral Rights and Freedoms".
15.07.2015 Baranavičy: Mikalai Charnavus not inlcuded in electoral team of Aliaksandr Lukashenka
June 30, Baranavičy entrepreneur and social activist Mikalai Charnavus filed an appeal to Baranavičy City Executive Committee, asking to include him and four more people in the electoral team of the incumbent president, Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
15.07.2015 Media space of Salihorsk district is quiet despite elections
Salihorsk human rights activists speak of the pre-election lull in the media landscape of the region.
15.07.2015 Former CEO of "Kryčaŭcamientašyfier" jailed, questions remain
In the evening of July 14, Kryčaŭ District Court issued a verdict in the case of the former Director General of "Kryčaŭcamientašyfier" (“Krychau cement and slate plant”) Leanid Skotski. He was punished by 10 years imprisonment in the colony with confiscation of property and the five-year prohibition to hold executive positions associated with the control and administrative functions.
15.07.2015 Hrodna: political parties are completing nomination to territorial commissions
Hrodna branches of the democratic parties that nominate their candidates for the presidential election or support the nomination, complete direction of their representatives to the territorial election commissions.
14.07.2015 Supreme Court turns down cassation appeal of death row convict
On July 14, the Supreme Court of Belarus considered the appeal of Rečyca resident Siarhei Ivanou. March 18, 2015 Ivanou was sentenced to death for a murder, committed with especial cruelty.
14.07.2015 Ales Bialiatski receives Lieŭ Sapieha award in Warsaw
According to Polskie Radio, on July 13 in Warsaw the head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski was awarded the prize Lieŭ Sapieha.
14.07.2015 Chief editor of "NAŠ Mahilioŭ" to stand trial
The trial of Ihar Barysau will start at 9.30 a.m. on July 15 at Kastrychnitski District Court of Mahilioŭ.
14.07.2015 Italian festival awards film about Bialiatski and other human rights defenders
“A Heart That Never Dies' is a six-part television series, filmed by director Erling Borgen and Tom Heinemann, received the award at the festival "Cinema for Peace" in Italy.
14.07.2015 Journalists are explained their rights only two weeks after beginning of the trial
July 10, Hlybokaje journalists Zmitser Lupach and Tatsiana Smotkina were summoned to the police to sign the paper that they had been explained their rights. “What is the sense of this paper, if the violation report was drawn up back on June 25, and nobody mentioned my rights then,” wonders Tatsiana.
14.07.2015 Belarusian volunteers in Kharkiv: the number of those who come for help for the first time gradually decreases
Volunteers of “Belarusian Human Rights Humanitarian Mission in Ukraine” continue working in Kharkive: July 13 was the first day for the new shift of Belarusians at Station “Kharkiv”.
14.07.2015 Mikalai Dziadok. Bitter taste of colony in Horki
Mikalai Dziadok has been held in the correctional colony in Horki for two months already. He was transferred there on May 12, after being sentenced to one year of imprisonment under Article 411 of the Criminal Code.
14.07.2015 Former arrestee describes conditions in arrest house in Baranavičy
Former prisoner Aliaksandr Bialchuk, owner of a large part-time farm in the village of Arlianka in Malaryta district, who was serving a 2 month arrest in the arrest house in Baranavičy, told about the conditions in this correctional facility.
13.07.2015 Analytical weekly report on results of observation: July 6-11
Observation of the presidential elections of the Republic of Belarus is carried out by activists of Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" in the framework of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections".
