05.10.2012 Mahiliou observer asks the National Academy of Sciences to check the theory of probability
Aliaksei Paulouski, a former election observer at polling station #53 of the Mahiliou-Central election constituency #85, submitted an appropriate letter to the National Academy of Sciences. The reason for the address was the data of the election at his polling station which made him doubt in the theory of probability.
05.10.2012 Election commission of the Savetskaya election constituency in Homel refuses to review the election results
“There are no reasons to find the election at the Homel-Savetskaya election constituency #34 invalid”, this is the answer received by a former candidate for the Parliament Ihar Sluchak.
05.10.2012 Social workers pay visit to Dzianis Sadouski's home
Dzianis Sadouski, an executive secretary of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, was among coordinators of the election boycott campaign in Minsk. He was detained on 28 August when he was pasting boycott posters calling. The Frunzenski District Court of Minsk sentenced him to 10 days in custody.
05.10.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok deprived of warm clothes
The prison administration said the political prisoner had no right to have warm clothes. Aliaksandr Dziadok, the father of political prisoner Mikalai Ddziadok, told charter97.org that his son, who already lost the right to receive parcels, make phone calls and see his relatives, was deprived of warm clothes. He also cannot receive medicines. The political prisoner is kept in isolation and cannot meet with his lawyer. Mail is not delivered from him.
05.10.2012 Mother cannot pass foreign medicine to political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich
For the prisoners with only one kidney they would accept only their Belarusian analogues. Tatiana Frantskevich, the mother of the political prisoners Aliaksandr Frantskevich, told charter97.org, that there is lull is the colony in the expectation of the Council of the EU’s meeting on the issue of introduction of new sanctions.
04.10.2012 Mahiliou: election commission turns down another appeal against turnover overstatement
The Mahiliou-Central constituency election commission #85 turned down an appeal of a former candidate for the Parliament, activist of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Anastasiya Voitava, who argued that the observers' assessments of the turnout didn't match with that announced by the commission and therefore asked to recognize the election at the constituency as invalid.
04.10.2012 Baranavichy: picket for the free travel for schoolchildren banned as well
On 3 October Baranavichy entrepreneur and civil activist Mikalai Charnavus received an answer from the deputy head of the Baranavichy City Executive Committe Dz. Kastsiukevich, where it is stated that his picket would not be authorized.
04.10.2012 Brest authorities ban a picket for decent work
Brest representatives of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry applied to the Brest authorities with the request to authorize a picket by which they intended to mark the World Day for Decent Work.
03.10.2012 EU Ambassadors present a démarche to Foreign Ministry of Belarus to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty
On 2 October, to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October), the Ambassador of Latvia to Belarus, together with the Ambassadors of France and Italy in Belarus and representatives from the European Union Delegation in Minsk presented a démarche to the Foreign Ministry of Belarus to repeatedly draw attention of Belarusian authorities to the issue of abolishing capital punishment in Belarus.
03.10.2012 Ivan Shyla gets charged with libel for complaint in connection with a strange days at a police station
As it was written in the Internet, in the beginning of July a young Salihorsk resident was put in the pre-trial prison of the Salihorsk District Police Department for disorderly conduct. Afterwards he was taken to the resuscitation department with a cranial trauma and died unconscious on 4 August.
03.10.2012 Central Election Commission gives similar answers to all appeals of Homel observers
The observers' appeals mainly concerned manipulations with the turnout at the precincts (as a rule, the numbers stated by the election commissions were twice larger than that of the observers).
03.10.2012 Ales Bialiatski writes about a great surprise and optimistic signs
In his letter of 27 September the human rights defender and political prisoner writes that he receives many postcards with congratulations on his jubilee, tells what became the greatest surprise he couldn't even imagine and reminds about the things we should always keep in mind.
03.10.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich gets isolated from outer world
The political prisoner does not receive letters. Autukhovich's Afghan war friend, Aliaksandr Sakharuk, fears Autukhovich does not receive mail. He said this to Euroradio: “He didn't reply to two latest letters. I sent a registered letter with delivery confirmation. I will wait and see what will happen. We both served in Afghanistan. When I began to wrote him, we found out we know the same towns and even kishlaks. I call him my army friend. I want to do my best to support him, but with no success.”
03.10.2012 Amnesty International: Activist threatened with rape and torture
Activist and prisoner of conscience Zmitser Dashkevich is being threatened with rape and torture in a penal colony in Mazyr, south-west Belarus, where he was transferred after his sentence on 28 August for allegedly violating prison rules entered into force.
02.10.2012 Human Rights Watch: Stop intimidation of political prisoners
Belarusian authorities should immediately end all harassment and intimidation of the political prisoners Ales Bialiatski and Zmitser Dashkevich, Human Rights Watch said today. Belarus should order an immediate investigation of all instances of mistreatment of detainees held on politically motivated charges, which activists say has increased recently, Human Rights Watch said.
