News for August 2015
04.08.2015 Leanid Kulakou complains about the conditions of detention in the detention center of Minsk district
Activist of "European Belarus" Leanid Kulakou is serving 7 days of administrative arrest for solidarity with political prisoner Yury Rubtsou.
04.08.2015 District newspapers of Mahilioŭ region also write only about collection of signatures for nomination of Lukashenka
The websites of the district newspapers of Mahilioŭ region contain few articles dedicated to the presidential electoral campaign of the Republic of Belarus so far.
04.08.2015 Yury Rubtsou: number of walks is reduced, the quality of food is poor
The political prisoner Yury Rubtsou told his wife, who visited him in prison in Baranavičy, that the number of walks was groundlessly restricted and the food served to the prisoners was of poor quality.
04.08.2015 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: July 2015
There were no positive developments in the human rights situation in Belarus during the month. conditions of detention and increasing pressure on political prisoners continued to be an issue of particular concern for human rights organizations.
04.08.2015 Websites of district executive committees in Brest region inform only about collection of signatures only for the incumbent
Most internet pages of the executive power in the region quite modestly inform about the campaign for the presidential elections in Belarus and are confined to official reports on the establishment of election commissions at the local level.
04.08.2015 Brest journalist Aliaksandr Liauchuk gets his phone blocked despite repaid fine
According to the journalist, an SMS-message from the telephone company MTS came to the phone which is used by his seven-year old daughter. By this message the user was informed that the telephone number would be blocked on court decision.
04.08.2015 Prisoners report a deterioration of prison conditions
Persons, convicted under Article 328 of the Criminal Code (trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances) through their relatives reported a significant deterioration in conditions in Belarusian prisons.
04.08.2015 Zmitser Dashkevich: EU encourages Lukashenka to take new “hostages”
Lifting sanctions from 24 Belarusian officials and judges means unprincipled trade ahead of the so called election.
03.08.2015 No apologies from Mikalai Lazavik
Chairman of Hrodna regional organization of the United Civil Party Aliaksandra Vasilevich has received an official response to his complaint to the CEC. The Central Election Commission did not consider it necessary to apologize for the insulting words and legal illiteracy of its secretary Mikalai Lazavik.
03.08.2015 Detained participants of punk concert near Minsk got released, violation reports sent back for revision
As reported by an organizer of the punk concert near Minsk, the detained participants of the concert were released and the violation reports against them were sent back to the police for revising.
03.08.2015 Hrodna: collector of signatures for Liabedzka attacked by a stranger
August 3 in the suburb of Farty in Hrodna, an unknown man assaulted Mikalai Voran, a collector of signatures for Anatol Liabedzka. He approached the electoral picket in a taxi several times, shouted out pro-Russian slogans and that he was Russian, charging on Mikalai Voran. The activist called the police, but the offender retired.
03.08.2015 Ales Bialiatski sees no clear grounds for reducing the EU sanctions list
As it became known today, the Council of the European Union by its decision dated 31 July lifted the sanctions from 24 Belarusian officials involved in the persecution and repression of civil society.
03.08.2015 At "Mahilioŭkhimvalakno" signatures for Lukashenka are collected during working hours by non-members of his electoral team
According to the workers of the plant "Mahilioŭkhimvalakno" (“Mahilioŭ Chemical Fiber”), the collection of signatures was organized on July 23. Before that, the heads of all departments of the enterprise told the workers to come to work with passports, as signatures in support of the candidacy of Aliaksandr Lukashenka were being collected.
03.08.2015 Websites of district executive committee of Mahilioŭ region provide information only about pickets in support of just one candidacy
Articles about the pickets for collecting signatures for nomination of candidates for the presidential elections have been published at a number of websites of the district executive committees of Mahilioŭ region.
03.08.2015 Number of polling stations in Baranavičy gets bigger
Second sitting of Baranavičy City Territorial Election Committee has been held in the building of Baranavičy City Executive Committee. Three questions have been considered there: the determination of the number and borders of the electoral precincts, the payment to members of TECs and the schedule of duty in August.
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