News on the topic: elections-2015
13.10.2015 Inflated turnout, non-transparent vote counting. Summarization of election results in Mahilioŭ
“During the voting at polling station No. 6 I took my ballot with me. However, in the final protocol of the precinct commission it is stated that the number of the ballots issued to electors is equal to the number of the ballots in the ballot box”, says Aliaksei Kolchyn, who observed the elections at polling station No. 56.
13.10.2015 Observer is told that the ballot box was cleaned and the ballots changed their places
Alena Shabunia, observer at polling station No. 68 in the Pieramajski district of Viciebsk, photographed the ballot boxes for early voting in the evening of October 10 and in the morning of October 11.
13.10.2015 Charges given to performance participants Yury Ursa and Yauhen Amelkau
After the spontaneous rally and procession on October 11 the police detained not only five activists of the anarchist movement who spent the night in the detention center in Akrestsin Street, but also the participants of an art performance, Yury Ursa and Yauhen Amelkau.
13.10.2015 Report on results of monitoring of mass event on October 11 in Minsk
The assembly and procession of October 11, 2015 in Minsk was peaceful. The absence of an application for holding mass actions, required by law, is not a reason to limit the freedom of peaceful assembly. We should also mention the spontaneous character of the action and the inability to identify the organizers.
13.10.2015 Salihorsk: observers complaint to prosecutor's office regarding turnout overstatement
The independent observer at polling station No. 24 in Salihorsk Viktar Malochka appealed to the Salihorsk District Prosecutor's Office regarding the considerable overstatement of turnout of voters on the election day in the protocol of the PEC.
13.10.2015 Rečyca: the turnout was significantly overstated, commissions held manipulations with home voting
Observer Valery Putsitski reported about peculiarities of voting at polling station No. 20 in Rečyca.
13.10.2015 Baranavičy: observers file complaints on discrepancy in turnout during early voting
The observers Ryhor Hryk and Tamara Strelchyk filed the third appeal to the Baranavičy Inter-district Prosecutor's Office and the Brest Regional Prosecutor's Office and the Central Election Commission regarding the facts of forgery of electoral documents at polling station No. 20.
13.10.2015 Election process did not meet a number of key international standards for democratic and free elections.
Election observation was carried out by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" within the framework of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections".
12.10.2015 Detained anarchists get released this morning
As learned by the HRC "Viasna", the five activists of the anarchist movement who were detained during the spontaneous protest event in central Minsk yesterday's evening, spent the night at the detention center in Akrestsin Street in Minsk.
12.10.2015 Human rights defenders present results of election monitoring
October 12, the resulting press-conference of the campaign “"Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections"” regarding the presidential elections of October 11 was held in Minsk.
12.10.2015 5 protesters get detained, will be tried tomorrow
At about 8 p.m., five activists of the anarchist movement were detained not far from Niezaliežnasci Square in Minsk.
12.10.2015 Barysaŭ: chairman consults higher commission before announcing results of voting
After the end of the vote counting at polling station No. 57 in Barysaŭ the members of the PEC refused to inform the observers about the results. As reported by an independent observer Pavel Daineka, nobody was let out of the polling station, while the chair of the commission was phoning either to the executive committee or a higher election commission to report about the results of the calculation.
12.10.2015 Hlusk District Election Commission is incredibly quick at counting electors' votes
As stated by the observer of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee at the Hlusk District Election Commission, Ihar Kiryn, he managed to see the commission only at the end of the receipt of documents from PECs as he was busy observing the vote counting at polling station No. 2. Together with him, the receipt of documents from the PEC was monitored by observers of the OSCE.
12.10.2015 Babrujsk: massive overestimation of turnout on election day
The regional coordinator of the campaign “Right to Elect” Taisiya Kabanchuk continues collecting and analysing information from observers. However, she is already able to state a large overestimation of the turnout at virtually all polling stations.
12.10.2015 Homieĺ: is it possible to count 2.5 thousand votes in 20 minutes?
Observer Ales Yauseyenka observed the voting on the election day at polling station No. 25 in the Saviecki district of Homieĺ.
