Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections

The campaign of election observation during the 2015 presidential election is carried out by the Human Right Center "Viasna" and the RHRPA “Belarusian Helsinki Committee”. The campaign is aimed at evaluating the election from the viewpoint of the Belarusian eletoral legislation and international standards of free and democratic elections, as well as informing the Belarusian public and international community about the progress of the election and results of observation.

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Observers can record audio and video only if election committees allow it

24.09.2015 Source: ERB

The Movement for Freedom is planning to send more than 200 observers to the coming presidential election, BelaPAN reports. Its activists asked the CEC whether they could bring and use audio and video appliances as well as optical devices at polling stations.

According to article 13 of the Election Code, ‘election committees have the right (but are not obliged) to allow the usage of audio and video appliances to observers’, the Central Election Commission replied.

The usage of special optical devices ‘is not statutory’, Lidziya Yarmoshyna stressed.

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Final analytical report on the results of monitoring the 2015 presidential elections by the campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections"

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