21.09.2012 Amnesty International: Opposition under attack amid growing boycott of elections
A spate of human rights violations targeting opposition supporters and journalists in Belarus is nothing more than a clumsy attempt to suppress opposition voices ahead of elections on Sunday 23 September, Amnesty International said amid a growing call to boycott the poll.
20.09.2012 Vitsebsk: Observers have to see through walls
Nina Shubina, head of Vitsebsk-based constituency election commission No. 52, has not allowed observers having their working place in the room occupied by the polling station. The observers were forced to occupy a table in the adjoining room, instead.
20.09.2012 2 observers expelled from polling station in Homel
Two independent observers – Andrei Tsianiuta and Andrei Zhaleznichenka – were forced today to leave Homel-based polling station No. 3 located in constituency No. 33.
20.09.2012 Svetlahorsk district: 6 observers deprived of registration
Six observers representing the Fair World party have been deprived of accreditation at a number of polling stations of Svetlahorsk district.
20.09.2012 Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich transferred to Mazyr penal colony
The imprisoned leader of the Young Front opposition movement Zmitser Dashkevich has been escorted to penal colony No. 20 in the southern town of Mazyr (Homel region), says Nasta Palazhanka, the Young Front’s deputy chair and Dashkevich’s fiancée.
20.09.2012 Belarus’ embassy to Ukraine denies registration to independent observer
The Belarusian Embassy to Ukraine has not authorized the registration of independent observer Hanna Darashchuk, representative of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee.
20.09.2012 Report of Early Voting Observation Results
Early Voting: Day 2 September 19, 2012
20.09.2012 Baranavichy police chief turns down observer’s complaint
Baranavichy observer Siarhei Housha has received a reply from the department of internal affairs of Brest regional executive committee following a complaint of biased and illegal consideration of election fraud charges by constituency election commission No. 5.
20.09.2012 Salihorsk: Forced early voting reported
The independent observers working in Salihorsk report numerous instances of coercion to early voting, as well as other election violations.
20.09.2012 KGB threatens Slonim observer
Andrei Lishyk, member of the Belarusian Popular Front’s Slonim office, who is currently acting as observer at polling station No. 18, was visited by the KGB agents.
20.09.2012 Mahiliou election officials overstate voters’ turnout
The election officials of Mahiliou-based polling station No. 45 have overstated the number of early voters, local observers report.
20.09.2012 Maladechna resident detained for displaying national flag (updated)
Maladechna police detained last evening local youth activist Ihar Liushtanh for displaying a white-red-white flag in the town park to mark the adoption of Belarus’ national symbols in 1991.
20.09.2012 Khotsimsk: opposition candidate’s campaign posters stolen in several polling stations
Valery Karankevich, candidate for Parliament running in constituency No. 83, says his campaign materials have disappeared from a number of polling stations in Khotsimsk district.
20.09.2012 Slutsk: “They told us to vote, or we all will get fired”
Yulia Balakir, observer representing the Conservative Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front”, says she witnessed coercion to early vote at polling station No. 5 in Slutsk-based constituency No. 67.
20.09.2012 Slonim: future doctors forced to vote early
The students of Slonim state medical college have been forced to take part in the early voting campaign, say local observers.
