News on the topic: elections-2015
21.08.2015 Siarhei Kaliakin quits election
Presidential contender Siarhei Kaliakin will not submit the collected signatures to the election commissions, but will call on citizens to vote against all.
21.08.2015 Hrodna region: democratic parties nominate 54 persons to polling station election commissions
The democratic parties participating in the presidential election have nominated 54 contenders to the polling station election commissions of the Hrodna region.
20.08.2015 Observer in Žodzina appeals against city election commission
Aliaksei Lapitski, observer of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" in Žodzina, has filed complaints to the Central Election Commission and the Minsk Regional Executive Committee to appeal against the city election commission, which refused to address numerous facts of abuse of administrative resources in collecting signatures by the initiative group of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
20.08.2015 Employees of state-owned enterprise in Bialyničy forced to collect signatures for Mikalai Ulakhovich
Employees of the Bialyničy-based consumer cooperative have been ordered to collect signatures for the nomination of presidential contender Mikalai Ulakhovich, chairman of the Belarusian Patriotic Party, supreme ataman of the NGO "Belarusian Cossacks".
20.08.2015 Alternative candidate in Smarhoń forces state-owned media cover nomination pickets
Mikalai Ulasevich, an activist of Anatol Liabedzka’s campaign team, has received electronic answers to his petitions to the Smarhoń territorial election commission and the district executive committee, which demanded equal conditions for media coverage of presidential candidates’ nomination activities.
20.08.2015 Students in Mahilioŭ recalled from internship to sign for Lukashenka
Students of the Mahilioŭ-based Belarusian-Russian University have been forced to suspend their internship, after they were ordered to return to the city in order to sign in favor of Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s nomination, says monitor of one of the classes of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
20.08.2015 Minsk City Court to examine video evidence in ex-presidential contender’s disorderly conduct case
The Minsk City Court heard yesterday a complaint against a fine imposed on presidential contender Yury Shulhan together with his associate Pavel Kanavalchyk after they were detained outside the building of the Central Election Commission on July 17.
19.08.2015 Ban on prisoners’ electoral rights groundless, say human rights defenders
As part of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections", lawyer Pavel Sapelka analyzes the issue of unjustified restriction of the right to participate in elections imposed on prisoners and people held in custody awaiting trial.
18.08.2015 Mahilioŭ: People sign for Lukashenka even without passports
It turned out during the collection of signatures in a dormitory of the Transmaš enterprise where activist Aliaksei Paulouski was collecting signatures for Tatsiana Karatkevich, mahilyowspring.org reports.
17.08.2015 Analytical report on the results of weekly observation: August 10-17
Observation of the presidential elections of the Republic of Belarus is carried out by activists of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" in the framework of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections".
17.08.2015 Member of Anatol Liabedzka nomination group seeks equal conditions in media coverage
Mikalai Ulasevich, a member of the nomination group of Anatol Liabedzka, has sent a letter to the Smarhoń district executive committee and the local government-run newspaper Svietly Šliach, asking to cover the nomination activities by the contender’s campaign team.
17.08.2015 Websites of local newspapers in Hrodna region cover Lukashenka nomination pickets only
The websites of local government-owned newspapers in the Hrodna region have been actively covering the activities of the nomination group for the incumbent Aliaksandr Lukashenka. In particular, the website of the Astravieckaja Praŭda (a government-run newspaper in the district of Astraviec) has posted six publications in just two weeks.
17.08.2015 Members of Tatsiana Karatkevich nomination team detained in Mahilioŭ
Valiantsina Shchetnikava and Ales Shautsou were collecting signatures at Mahilioŭ’s Vilienski market in support of presidential contender Tatsiana Karatkevich. The picket was attended by Mrs. Karatkevich, who talked to local residents for nearly half an hour. However, after her departure, the problems started.
15.08.2015 Brest region to have 36 closed polling station at presidential elections
One of the closed polling station is located on the territory of a military unit in Brest, whereas the rest belong to hospitals, sanatoriums and other resort facilities.
14.08.2015 Human rights activist calls on the Central Election Commission and the Prosecutor's Office to take action against "Belarusian Society of Hunters and Fishermen"
The coordinator of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" Uladzimir Labkovich appealed to the Central Election Commission and the Prosecutor's Office with a complaint about a violation of the laws of the Republic of Belarus.
