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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5 protesters get detained, will be tried tomorrow

12.10.2015

At about 8 p.m., five activists of the anarchist movement were detained not far from Niezaliežnasci Square in Minsk.

Two of them were placed in the detention center inAkrestsin Street for the night. The fate of the others is being cleared.

The detainees were given charges under art. 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences, petty hooliganism, and will be tried at the Kastryčnicki district court of Minsk on October 12.

Moreover, according to our information a report under Art. 23.34 of CAO was compiled against 17-year-old Yahor Skarableuski, who was let go after it.

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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"

Election process did not meet a number of key international standards for democratic and free elections.

Human rights defenders present results of election monitoring