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Observer ejected from polling station in Vitsebsk

2012 2012-09-23T10:44:30+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en https://spring96.org/files/images/sources/dziarzhaucau.jpg The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
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Yan Dziarzhautsau, Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front”.

Yan Dziarzhautsau, Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front”.

Yan Dziarzhautsau, observer representing the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Vitsebsk polling station No. 14, was denied accreditation after he received a warning for alleged insulting other observers.

“At first, they accused me of insulting two pro-government observers. But it is no true, because they would have called the police at once. So I came up to the table occupied by the election commission and asked for permission to phone the constituency commission. They told me I could call there. However, as soon as I picked up the receiver the “insulted” ladies said I had been walking around the room and interfering with the commission’s activities. As a result, I received a warning,” says Yan Dziarzhautsau.

In the afternoon, the commission voted to eject the observer from the polling station.

“I guess it is all because of the complaints I wrote,” says the observer.

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