News on the topic: Mahiliou
21.08.2008 Mahiliou: Members of district election commission proposed people to refuse from signatures for independent candidate
District election commission # 87 has invented a way to withdraw Tatsiana Shambalava from the race. Shambalava is a member of Belarusian Christian Democracy and a candidate on the unified list of UDF.
18.08.2008 Mahiliou: UDF contender received seven letters from financial investigation department of the Committee for State Control
Yury Novikau has received seven registered letters from the financial investigation department of the Committee for State Control. The letters contain summons to come to the financial investigation department and forms he and his family have to fill in.
30.07.2008 Mahiliou region: 24 initiative groups of democratic candidates in 13 districts
24 initiative groups of pro-democratic candidates are registered in Mahiliou region. Head of the election headquarters for Mahiliou region Yury Novikau points out: “all initiative groups of all pro-democratic candidates who wanted to run in the election were registered. They have already started collecting signatures. Candidates had no problems in registering their initiative groups”. “In the beginning 28 representatives of pro-democratic parties were going to run. For various reasons some of them decided not to run”. There are 13 districts in Mahiliou region. Initiative groups of pro-democratic candidates are registered in every district. Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections
28.07.2008 Mahiliou: Members of district election commission did not collect signatures?
Member of Belarusian Helsinki Committee Natalia Samakhvalava suspects, all eight members of district election commission # 87, nominated by signature collection, did not collect signatures for their nomination.
28.07.2008 Mahiliou: Black PR used against independent candidate Aliaksei Paulouski
During two days the initiative group of Aliaksei Paulouski collected 140 signatures. However, the candidate experiences strong counteraction of the authorities in this process.
23.07.2008 Mahiliou: Observer not admitted to session of district election commission
Observer from BPF Adradzhennie Tatsiana Bulanava was not admitted to the session of the election commission in district # 84. According to Tatsiana, the chair of the commission told her they had received a list of registered parties and organizations from the deputy head of Mahiliou justice department. She claimed BPF Adradzhennie was not on the list.
23.07.2008 Mahiliou: BPF and PCB are least represented in district commissions
93 people became members of district commissions through signature collection, 27 people were nominated by work collectives, 12 – by BRSM (pro-governmental youth union), 9 – by Belarusian Association of Veterans, 7 – by Belarusian Union of Women, 7 – by Belaya Rus organization, 3 – by Communist Party of Belarus, 3 – by Belarusian Trade Union of Agroindustrial Complex, 2 – by Belarusian Association of Veterans of the War in Afghanistan, 2 – by Republican Party of Labor and Justice, 1 – by Belarusian Agrarian party, 1 – by pro-democratic Party of Communists of Belarus, 1 – by Liberal Democratic Party, and 1 – by BPF Adradzhennie NGO.
18.07.2008 Mahiliou: None of independent observers managed to get to first sessions of district election commissions
Mahiliou human rights activist Barys Bukhel reports, none of independent observers managed to get to first sessions of district election commissions in Mahiliou. “This happens because of the fact that there are the so called “holes” in the law. Neither the Election Code, nor the CEC rulings describe the procedure of observers’ registration before first sessions of all election commissions. There is also no mechanism how the observers can get to first sessions of the commissions.
05.02.2008 Ales Bialiatski: ‘One can speak of normalization of relations between the authorities and their political opponents only after the release of all political prisoners!’
On 5 February the college board of Mahiliou oblast court considered the cassation complaint on a criminal case against Artur Finkevich and reversed the verdict of Kastrychnitski district court of Mahiliou, according to which Finkevich was to have serve 1,5 years of jail for ‘evasion from serving his corrective labor term’.
21.01.2008 Mahiliou activists receive summons to police
On the eve of the entrepreneurs’ protest rally which is to take place on January 21st in Mahiliou, a number of Mahiliou civic activists received summons to come to police. They are to come to local police stations in the morning of January 21st.
27.06.2007 Mahiliou Entrepreneurs Hold Protest Action
The businessmen protest against frequent examinations of sanitary certificates for their goods.
