Slonim: war on agitation posters
The Slonim activists of
the Belarusian Christian Democracy and the Belarusian Popular Front addressed
the Slonim District Police Department and the Slonim District Election
Commission in connection with the counteraction to posting the posters of their
candidates in the places where it is officially allowed to do it according to
Ruling #967 of the Slonim District Executive Committee of 22 November 2010.
In particular, on 7 December the director of the shopping center Prestige Halina Kazialetskaya tore down
all posters of the BPF candidate Ryhor Kastusiou. A BPF activist Ivan Sheha
said that she had also done it to his posters when he had run for the local
council.
Director of drugstore #5 in Chyrvonaarmeiskaya
Street tore down and threw away Kastisiou’s posters
as well.
The head doctor of the children’s district polyclinic Liudmila Dziahel refused
to hang out the agitation posters of Vital Rymasheuski saying she was banned to
do it by the Deputy Head of the hospital Ihar Kalinichau to whom she was
subordinated.
The director of the Slonim central library system Larysa Repinskaya said she
would hang out the agitation posters of Vital Rymasheuski in the town libraries
on her own. However, several days have passed, but the posters are still in her
office.
The BCD activist Ivan
Bedha also hanged out Rymasheuski posters at precinct #19. However, it was soon
removed by members of the precinct election commission. As a result, Mr. Bedka
filed complaints with the procuracy and the Slonim District Election
Commission. Having found about it, the commission members quickly returned the
poster to its place. However, no one knows how long it will stay there.
Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections
