For more than a year has passed since the verdict to the political prisoner Mikhail Zhemchuzhny. Departing of the sentence in a correctional colony #14, Mikhail does not break relations with fellow human rights activists, actively protects its rights and legitimate interests.
"We believe that under a dictatorship elections are impossible in nature. We will offer the voters to boycott the elections in illegal "“tent pocket”" – as four members of the CCP BPF wrote in their applications for pickets filed with the administration of all areas of Viciebsk.
Egor Levachyov is twenty-two years. Such people: young so early. This year, the campaign "Tell the Truth" invited him to participate in the elections, and now an activist is a candidate for the House of Representatives on Lepiel constituency number 23.
August 16 Navapołacak court began its consideration of the criminal case against the son of Babrujsk blogger Oleg Zhelnov – Alexei Milyukov (Zhelnov), who is serving a three-year sentence in Navapołacak correctional facility of open type #15.
This is the first in nearly 10 years, the case of the legalization of the territorial organization of the Belarusian Popular Front party in the regions.
On August 15 Viciebsk Regional Court began to examine complaints and civil party activists on waivers of district election commissions register them as candidates for deputy of the Belarusian parliament. During the first day of the trial it was considered the complaints of two contenders for the seats in the House of Representatives, Nicholay Manohin and Sergei Vasiliev.
By decision of the district commission 65 candidates (just put forward 86 persons) registered in the region. Viciebsk region to be elected to parliament 14 MPs. The competition is the average for the region was 4.6 per place. The highest competition in Viciebsk-Chkalovsky district №18, where the candidate's identity got 7 people.
On August 12, the "European club" Viciebsk on the proposal of the civil initiative "Women against fraud" was held meeting of the initiative with a number of registered candidates from democratic parties and movements of Viciebsk.