News for July 2015
19.07.2015 Homieĺ: campaigning pickets banned at bus stations
On July 17, the Homieĺ city executive committee announced the list of places forbidden for picketing to collect signatures in support of presidential candidates. The decision of July 15 differs from the previous similar legal acts adopted in the last elections to local councils (2014) and the presidential campaign in 2010 by imposing a ban on collecting signatures at bus stations, railway stations and at the territory near the stations.
19.07.2015 Kruhlaje executive committee cancels own decision on prohibited picketing locations
The website of the Kruhlaje district executive committee has published a new decision "On the determination of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect voters' signatures for nomination of candidates for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus". The decision of the executive committee is dated July 15.
19.07.2015 Babrujsk: campaigning opportunities expanded
The official website of the Babrujsk City Executive Committee published on July 17 a list of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect voters' signatures for nomination of presidential candidates. The document was adopted on July 16.
17.07.2015 “Human Rights Defenders For Free Elections” to maintain close contacts with OSCE ODIHR assessment mission
Today, the chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski, Chair of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Aleh Hulak and member of Viasna’s Board Uladzimir Labkovich met with representatives of the OSCE ODIHR election monitoring assessment mission – Mr. Vladimir Misev, OSCE/ODIHR Election Adviser, and Ms. Tatyana Bogussevich, OSCE/ODIHR Senior Election Adviser.
17.07.2015 CEC registers campaign teams of 3 presidential candidates
According to BelaPAN, at its today’s meeting the Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered three initiative groups for nominating presidential candidates: the incumbent President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, Chairman of the Belarusian Party of the Left "Fair World" Siarhei Kaliakin and Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Siarhei Haidukevich.
17.07.2015 Baranavičy: collecting signatures is only possible in desolate districts
The official website of the Baranavičy city executive committee has published a decision “On the definition of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect signatures for the nomination of candidates for the President of Belarus."
17.07.2015 Biaroza executive committee expands list of forbidden places ahead of elections
The Biaroza district executive committee has expanded the number of places prohibited for picketing in order to collect voters' signatures for the nomination of presidential candidates.
17.07.2015 Ongoing harassment of Tajik activists: 13 years in prison for Maksud Ibragimov, extradition request from Belarus for Shabnam Hudoydodova
According to the BBC Russian service, a court in Tajikistan pronounced yesterday a sentence to the leader of a youth public organization “Youth of Tajikistan for Revival”, Maksud Ibragimov. He was accused of involvement in a banned opposition movement "Group of 24", formerly harassed for extremism by the Tajik authorities, and eventually sentenced to 13 years in prison.
17.07.2015 Freelance journalist Dzmitry Lupach to be tried on July 23
The trial of freelance journalist Dzmitry Lupach will be held at the Hlubokaye District Court.
17.07.2015 Officials in Salihorsk and Niasviž districts send campaigners to ‘ghettos’
The executive authorities of Salihorsk and Niasviž districts have banned the collection of signatures for future potential presidential candidates in most crowded places.
17.07.2015 Vaitsiushkevich blamed for extremism and war propaganda
Another attempt to organize a concert of Dzmitry Vaitsiushkevich in Minsk turned into a scandal.
17.07.2015 Release of Nabeel Rajab must be followed by other measures to put an end to the crackdown on human rights defenders
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders welcomes the release of Mr. Nabeel Rajab but recalls that it is a positive but insufficient step since the Royal Pardon only concerns one of the three set of criminal charges Mr. Rajab has been facing in the last months.
16.07.2015 Central Election Commission to consider bids from 7 presidential candidates tomorrow
The Central Election Commission is expected to consider at a meeting tomorrow afternoon applications of seven persons who announced their intention to run for the President, as well as the issue of registration of voters’ initiative groups.
16.07.2015 Campaigning restrictions announced in Babrujsk, Dobruš, Svietlahorsk districts, Viciebsk region
Local executive authorities in Babrujsk, Dobruš, Hlybokaje districts and the Viciebsk region have announced restrictions on campaigning events in the territory of these districts.
16.07.2015 Minsk Regional Council justifies violation of procedure for consideration of human rights defender’s proposal
The Minsk Regional Council of Deputies has rejected an appeal by the Salihorsk representative of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Leanid Markhotka, against an earlier refusal of the Presidium of the Salihorsk District Council to discuss at its next meeting a draft resolution "On freedom of assembly".
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