More that 100 facts of repressions against activists of the campaign \u201cBoycott-2008\u201d have been recorded by human rights service of the \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d since the beginning of the election campaign, June 10, 2008. Violations of human rights of democratic activists were recorded daily in Belarus. Main instruments of pressing were detentions, beating, fines, unlawful administrative arrests, expelling from education institutions, firing.<\/p>\n
The authorities also hindered pro-opposition and independent candidates and their supporters, as well as activists of civil campaigns in distributing information.<\/p>\n
Representatives of the democratic forces were denied access to polling station election commissions in order for the authorities to have the conditions for rigging the election results.<\/p>\n
Independent observers recorded facts of ballot boxes opening and ballot stuffing, as well as other violations, which have direct impact on voting results. The number of voters in constituencies was a secret for candidates.<\/p>\n
The \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d says in view of the held \u201celection\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u2013 no positive changes in the process of election campaign, voting and votes counting were noticed during the election campaign;<\/p>\n
\u2013 the election for the \u201chouse of representatives\u201d wasn\u2019t free, transparent, and democratic;<\/p>\n
\u2013 loyal to the regime officials, who are not elected representatives of the Belarusian people, were appointed to the \u201chouse of representatives\u201c again. Recognition of this falsified election by international organisations and European institutions is out of the question.<\/p>\n
The international community should support demands of Belarusian democratic forces to hold new free election. Election but not falsification can become a foundation for development of relations with Belarus.<\/p>\n
Zmitser Dashkevich<\/p>\n
Viktar Ivashkevich<\/p>\n
Mikhail Marynich<\/p>\n
Andrei Sannikov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In spite of all assurances of the authorities to carry out fair election, another electoral farce was held in Belarus.<\/p>\n
Democratic candidates, members of their initiative teams, activists of civil campaigns felt constant pressure and repressions during the election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}