News on the topic: Baranavichy
04.11.2008 Baranavichy: ‘Young Front’ activists are beaten on return from Dziady action
Activists of the Young Front Yury Bahdanovich and Siamion Bylinski were brutally beaten up after they returned to Baranavichy from the protest rally Dziady in Minsk.
27.09.2008 It’s already September 28th in Baranavichy
Observers report, today, September 27th, the following ad can be hear in the city bus # 14: “Today, on September 28th, there are elections to the Chamber of Representatives of the National Assembly. You can vote from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.” Observers can’t but guess: if it was the driver’s mistake or the authorities deliberately create an illusion that today is the last day when people can vote.
26.09.2008 Baranavichy: Report once you've voted
We have received another documented evidence of the fact that school teachers and staff are “insistently asked” to vote early from Baranavichy. Moreover, those who have cast votes have to sign the special lists which are kept in the teachers’ room.
25.09.2008 Problem campaigning: News from the regions
News bits from the regions
25.09.2008 Compulsion is typical for early voting
Baranavichy, Mazyr, Vitebsk
24.09.2008 Baranavichy: Early voting conducted with violations
Representatives of precinct election commissions of Baranavichy-Zakhodniaya district # 5 and Baranavichy rural district # 7 refuse to provide information to agents of candidates Mikalai Charnavus and Ryhor Hryk (both nominated by UCP) and to BHC observers. This is violation of Article 65 of the Constitution and Article 13 of the Election Code that say that elections are to be open and transparent.
20.09.2008 Baranavichy: Authorities embroider the statistics before the elections
The department of the ideological work of Baranavichy city executive committee spread the material “Belarus on the edge of elections” through Nash Krai newspaper (# 111 of September 18th, 2008).
19.09.2008 Baranavichy: OSCE observers saved the situation
The security of Atlant plant in Baranavichy, refused to let agents of candidate Mikalai Charnavus to attend the meeting of this candidate with the plant workers. They also refused to let Aleh Pashko, candidate in a neighboring district, to come to the meeting. In the end, the plant director allowed everyone to come to the plant territory because quite unexpectedly the international OSCE observers arrived. The meeting took place although the number of workers who attended it was not very big.
