16.07.2012 Mazyr, Pruzhany, Orsha, Zhodzina, Barysau, Shklou: constituency election commissions chaired by executive officials

Local constituency election commissions have held their first meetings. As a result, the commissions will be traditionally chaired by representatives of the executive power.

16.07.2012 Maladechna observer denied access to information

Maladechna human rights defender Eduard Balanchuk, who is officially registered as observer at local constituency No. 72, says he has been denied access to information on an unidentified candidate who reportedly submitted his application to register an initiative group.

16.07.2012 Slutsk police detain civil activist

Vital Amialkovich, civil activist from the town of Slutsk, Minsk region, was detained by local police at about 12 p.m. 14 July.

16.07.2012 Alinevich thrown into punishment cell for two weeks

Anarchist Ihar Alinevich “is inclined to violent behaviour and is likely to escape”, the administration of the penal colony in Navapolatsk thinks.

Ihar said it to his mother Valyantina Alinevich in a phone conversation on July 14. It was his third telephone call in the last 12 months.

16.07.2012 Teachers are forcibly included to the pro-governmental parties

So, Minsk teachers are prepared to be nominated for the observers of the upcoming “parliament elections”.

16.07.2012 Bernikovich fails to register nomination group due to absense of copybooks

Navapolatsk district parliamentary election commission was not ready for work.

16.07.2012 Loreen wished freedom to Belarusians

The winner of "Eurovision" has met with the wife of Ales Bialiatski.

16.07.2012 Mother sends fresh appeal to KGB chief over Kavalyow`s jail notes

The mother of Uladzislaw Kavalyow, one of the two young men executed in the subway bombing case this past spring, has sent a fresh appeal to the chief of the Committee for State Security (KGB) over the notes that her son made during and after his trial, reported the Belarus service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Saturday.

16.07.2012 Opposition activist Molchan to stand trial on Monday

Andrey Molchan, an activist of an opposition group called European Belarus, will stand trial in Minsk’s Pershamayski District Court on Monday on a charge of “petty hooliganism,” his associate Maksim Vinyarski told BelaPAN.

16.07.2012 Photographer Anton Surapin detained for three days

They will check whether he is connected with the teddy bears incident.