23.09.2012 Press photographer detained in polling station in Minsk
Dzmitry Lasko, photographer of the “Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii” daily, was shortly detained this morning at Minsk-based polling station No. 704, the press-service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports, quoting the newspaper’s photographer Iryna Kozlik.
23.09.2012 Khotsimsk election agent taken to police station for explanations
Piotr Baseika, election agent of candidate Valery Karankevich, has been detained outside polling station No. 55 in Khotsimsk.
23.09.2012 Mahiliou observer appeals obstacles by election officials
Valery Berazienka, observer representing the Fair World party, has lodged a complaint with Mahiliou election commission No. 45, appealing extremely poor conditions for observers’ activities at polling stations.
23.09.2012 104 ballots “lost” in Smarhon
The election record released by Smarhon-based constituency election commission No. 59 following the end of the early voting campaign says 241 persons voted by 23 September, with 1,305 ballots left. However, the commission received 1,650 ballot papers, i.e. there should have been 1,409 unused ballots.
23.09.2012 Businessman Aliaksandr Makayeu detained
Minsk police detained today entrepreneur Aliaksandr Makayeu, as he was driving to work.
23.09.2012 Independent observers unwelcome in Mazyr polling stations
Independent observers working in Mazyr (Homel region) have reportedly been threatened with detention, in case they come to poling stations on the voting day, 23 September.
23.09.2012 Two activists detained in Minsk
Andrei and Aliaksei Dvaretskis were detained yesterday evening by Minsk police. The brothers were reportedly charged with an administrative offence. However, the exact reasons for the arrest are yet unknown.
23.09.2012 Babruisk: huge mismatch in voter turnout
From the very beginning of the early voting campaign, the independent observers of Babruisk have reported considerable difference in voter turnout figures provided by the election commission of polling station No. 12.
23.09.2012 Khotsimsk: opposition candidate’s election agent denied access to polling station
Piotr Baseika, election agent of Valery Karankevich, candidate running for Parliament in the town of Khotsimsk, who is also accredited as an observer, was not allowed today working at polling station No. 54.
23.09.2012 Observer ejected from polling station in Vitsebsk
Yan Dziarzhautsau, observer representing the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Vitsebsk polling station No. 14, was denied accreditation after he received a warning for alleged insulting other observers.
22.09.2012 Another observer warned in Mahiliou
Valery Beraziyenka, leader of Fair World’s Mahiliou office working as an observer in constituency No. 45, was warned yesterday by election commission for alleged interference with the activities of election officials.
22.09.2012 Luninets candidate faces obstacles
In the last days of election campaigning, the executive authorities of the town of Luninets (Brest region) have prevented candidate Vital Karatysh (constituency No. 13) from having a number of meetings with voters at state-owned enterprises and organizations. Apart from that, his election posters have been stolen.
22.09.2012 Fair World observer ejected from polling station in Zhlobin
Mrs. Ilona Tkachova, election agent of candidate Valery Rybchanka, member of the Fair World party running in Zhlobin constituency No. 40, has been expelled from polling station No. 15.
22.09.2012 Human rights defender demands to cancel early vote results in polling station in Vitsebsk
Human rights defender Pavel Levinau has addressed the Central Election Commission with a complaint against polling station election commission No. 52.
22.09.2012 Colors of childhood for Ales Bialiatski
Ales Bialiatski often writes that he keeps receiving many postcards from various offices of Amnesty International, mainly from Great Britain and the Netherlands. One of his recent letters Ales told of motley fireworks of postcards from Dutch children, who painted his prison days in emotional colors.
