Each and one forced to hold pickets for dictator

On October 6, a picket organized by Belaya Rus (White Rus) party was held in front of the regional therapeutic and diagnostic center in Mahilou.

Participants of the picket were collecting signatures for nominating Alyaksandr Lukashenka as presidential candidate, the organization “Human Rights Activists for Free Elections” reports.

“I saw a woman who is not a member of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s initiative group, but she was collecting signatures. She refused to introduce herself, but she looked like she was in charge of the picket,” Human rights activist Alyaksei Kalchyn tells. “Besides her, two persons were collecting signatures. I asked them to show their IDs. A woman showed me her passport and certificate. The other woman refused to show, but later admitted she wasn’t a member of the initiative group and was just “helping to collect signatures”, though actually she didn’t help but collected them personally.”