News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
07.12.2010 Buda-Kashaliova: democratic activists are threatened with beating
Recently the democratic activists of Homel have established the youth coalition Studyja that launched the project of the electronic complaint book Don’t Keep Silence! Any person who witnesses a violation of the electoral legislation can tell about it at the website studyja.org.
07.12.2010 Homel: city authorities ban picket against early voting
At the end of November the Homel human rights defenders Anatol Paplauny and Leanid Sudalenka applied for holding a picket on 10 December, the Human Rights Day.
07.12.2010 Minsk: lecturers are ‘advised’ to politely herd students to early voting
The preparation to the forced early voting is at its height in the Minsk universities. For instance, the lecturers of some faculties of Belarusian State University were told to ‘politely ask’ their students to come to lectures with passports (that are necessary for early voting).
07.12.2010 Minsk: election commission shuns its member from BPF Party
The member of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Iryna Smiayan-Semianiuk who was included in precinct election commission #104 of the Maskouski district of Minsk is not informed about the time of the commission’s sitting ’.
07.12.2010 Activists of Speak Truth! and European Belarus call to stop one-man show!
At 10 a.m. on 7 December activists of the civil campaigns European Belarus and Speak Truth! held a rally in the center of Minsk demanding to give TV air to opposition candidates.
07.12.2010 Ivanava: Sannikau’s electoral picket visited by armed policemen
Pickets to spread agitation materials in support of presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau were held in Ivanava and Drahichyn.
07.12.2010 Beating of activist of Niakliayeu’s campaign
A stranger attacked a volunteer near a picket of the presidential candidate Uladzimir Niakliayeu.
07.12.2010 Salihorsk: state-owned press prepares the public opinion for falsifications
The Salihorsk district mass media actively voice the figures of the candidates’ ratings and voters’ turnout.
06.12.2010 Orsha: Lukashenka’s proxy violates electoral laws
According to the electoral legislation, the Orhsa Town Executive Committee determined the places for electoral meetings of presidential candidates and their proxies. However, in fact this ruling concerns all candidates but Lukashenka.
06.12.2010 Don’t Maladechna police know anything about electoral campaign?
On 4 December in Maladechna the police detained four young activists who take part in the electoral campaign of the presidential candidate Ryhor Kastusiou.
06.12.2010 Mahiliou region: acts about violation of the rules of canvassing drawn on three candidates
The acts about violation of the rules of canvassing were drawn against three presidential candidates – Ryhor Kastusiou, Uladzimir Niakliayeu and Vital Rymasheuski. The documents were passed to the Central Election Commission.
06.12.2010 Minsk: election commissions are still recommended to organize brigades of ‘observers’
Several days the authorities held an educational seminar for the heads of the precinct election commissions of the Zavadski district of Minsk. The seminar was lead by the chief specialist of the organizational and personnel department of the Zavadski District Executive Committee Iryna Yanushevich.
06.12.2010 Dobrush: electoral influence through children
The state-owned newspaper Dobrushki Krai assures the readers that the Election Day will become a holiday.
06.12.2010 Salihorsk: CIS observers met only with state officials
As we learned, the observers of the observation mission of the Commonwealth of Independent States Albert Druzhinin and Vasiliy Astreyko came to Salihorsk. They met with a representative of the Salihorsk District Election Commission and visited several election precincts in Salihorsk and the surrounding villages. They didn’t hold any meetings with the local human rights defenders or independent observers.
06.12.2010 Masty: police demand explanations from members of electoral team of Vital Rymasheuski
In the morning of 6 December the local police inspector came to the apartment of Alena Davidovich and asked who had delivered the agitation materials of the presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski which she had posted in the town together with her friends.
