Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections

The procedure of counting remains the same.

As reported by a representative of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” Aleh Pashkevich, who observes the elections at polling station No. 6 in Navapolack, at 6 p.m. the polling station was visited by the director general of the industrial alliance “Naftan” and two his deputies, including the deputy on ideology.

At about 7 p.m. on October 11, a woman who introduced herself as “the coordinator for observers”, expelled the observers of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Yuliya Filiphyk and Alena Malko from polling station No. 4 in the Kastryčnicki district of Minsk,

On the eve of the early voting, October 5, Tatsiana Ladukas got registered as an observer at polling station No. 5 in Navapolack. In the afternoon she felt unwell and was taken to hospital with the diagnosis “threat of miscarriage”.

Public campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” invites all interested persons to the press-conference on the results of monitoring of the elections of President of the Republic of Belarus.

As learned by the HRC “Viasna”, October 11 an observer of the campaign “Right to Elect” Yury Liashenka was unable to observe the election sat polling station No. 15 in the town Liasny in the Minsk district due to the absence of access for wheelchair users.

October 11, Ukrainian and Belarusian civil society activists in Prague picketed the Belarusian Embassy in Prague with the demand to hold fair elections and put an end to election rigging.

The incident took place at polling station No. 9 in the Centraĺny district of Homieĺ. As reported by an observer of the Belarusian Popular Front “Adradženne” Aliaksandr Dzenisenka, he was hit in the face by an unknown woman.

Two independent observers were removed from polling station No. 2 in Babrujsk for asking questions that were unnerving the chairperson of the precinct election commission, Kseniya Laptseva.

Independent observers in Babrujsk say that members of election commission state very large numbers of those who want to vote at home. However, when independent observers join them for monitoring the home voting, only single observers vote.

The photo that illustrates the media news about the voting of the presidential candidate Mikalai Ulakhovich also clearly indicates an electoral violation: a poster with the electoral slogan of another candidate, incumbent president Lukashenka, “For Freedom of Independent Belarus!” is hanging right over the ballot box!

None of the observers of the campaign “Right to Elect” have been allowed to take photos and videos during the counting of votes at the polling stations of Salihorsk.

During the early voting at polling station No. 24 in Minsk the observers saw two carousel floaters and later saw how they were paid for fictitious participation in the elections.

October 10, independent observers at Sožavy polling station No. 4 in Kryčaŭ counted 101 voters less than written in the PEC protocol for that day. At Vakzaĺny polling station No. 8, independent observer Nadzeya Ivanova counted 25 voters less than in the PEC protocol, though she didn't leave the polling station even for a minute.

October 10, Vasil Berazouski, chairman of precinct election commission No. 2 in Hlusk, changed the protocol of early voting for October 9 after an observation of the independent observer Ihar Kiryn (photos 1 and 2).