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Regime starts cruel repressions against “election” observers

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Regime starts cruel repressions against “election” observers

A member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, a human rights activist from Maladechna, one of the participants of the monitoring in the elections to the “chamber of representatives” of the “national assembly” of the Republic of Belarus Eduard Balanchuk has been punished under 2 articles of the Criminal Code. The case was studied in the court of Maskouski district of Minsk by judge Kharkevich.

Yesterday Balanchuk was detained by policemen and KGB officers near the office of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee where consultations on elections monitoring were to take place. 2 reports were drawn up against Eduard Balanchuk. He was charged with insubordination to a legal demand of an official person on duty (Article 23.4 of the Administrative Code) and petty hooliganism (Article 17.1 of the Administrative Code), the human rights centre “Viasna” informs.

The court considered testimony of law-enforcing agencies’ representatives and ignored testimony of witnesses of the defendant, and sentenced Balanchuk to 10 days of arrest and a fine of 1 mln 50 thousand Belarusian rubles.

It is clear that in this way the regime launches repressions against Belarusian human rights activists, who have openly stated their intention to carry out a monitoring of the imminent elections within the framework of the existing law.

Unfortunately, the last highlight declarations of the regime and the central Election Committee representatives about democratisation and transparency of the electoral law have remained a mere declaration. The first facts of the brutal clampdown of human rights watchdogs show that the regime does not want to change its anti-democratic and anti-people’s overtone.

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