President’s Office must stop exerting pressure on the CEC
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine considers the actions of the representatives of the Office of the President as an attempt to put pressure on the Central Election Commission and to interfere in its activities on the eve of the local elections. The CVU calls on the authorities to stop putting pressure on the CEC and […]
Second interim report of pre-election monitoring of the Parliamentary elections
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) has been monitoring the pre-election period of the October 31, 2020 elections of the Parliament of Georgia since June 1. The monitoring is implemented with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the European Union (EU). Second interim report of the pre-election […]
Call for an end to violence in Belarus and need for political dialogue with mediation of the OSCE
Image source: Belsat TV The presidential elections on August 9, 2020 took place under massive political pressure and contrary to Belarusian laws and international commitments. The ongoing state violence and detention of protesters against election rigging violates the Paris Charter and the values of democracy and Human rights in Europe. They are shaking Belarusian […]
EPDE members show solidarity with colleagues in Belarus
Image source: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters Since the presidential election on August 9, protests broke out across Belarus which have been dispersed violently. Over 6 000 citizens have been arrested, including journalists and activists. EPDE members Belarusian Helsinki Committee and Human Rights Center “Viasna” also report that 150 observers have been arrested, including from their joint […]
Hundreds of protesters released from prisons. Torture reports mount
Image source: tut.by Several hundred protesters were released from the three detention centers in Minsk and Žodzina last night, while the exact number of them remains unknown. Many of them were taken away in ambulances immediately after leaving the prisons. The prisoners walked free against the background of certain relaxation of repression and a […]
Preliminary report on the presidential election
Observation of the presidential election is carried out by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” in the framework of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”. CONCLUSIONS The pre-election period was characterized by an economic decline against the background of contradictions in Belarusian-Russian relations and a considerable budget shortfall caused […]
Preliminary report on the presidential election
The Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections state in their preliminary report on the conduct of the presidential election that the electoral process at all of its stages did not comply with a number of basic international standards for democratic and fair elections and was accompanied by numerous violations of these principles and requirements of […]
Belarus Election Alert #6
Following the presidential election on August 9 and the declaration of Lukashenka’s victory, protests broke out across Belarus. They were dispersed violently by law enforcement agencies, resulting in numerous injuries, at least one casualty, and thousands of arrests. In this post-election edition Election Alert, we share the preliminary report and post E-Day statements of the […]
Decision to not hold local elections in certain constituencies of GCA Donetsk and Luhansk is a disenfranchisement of voters
On August, 08, 2020, on the grounds of conclusions from Donetsk and Luhansk oblast civil-military administrations, the CEC thereby established the impossibility to conduct the first local elections in 10 territorial hromadas (constituencies) in Donetsk Oblast, and in 8 hromadas in Luhansk Oblast. Notably, the local elections will not be organized in the de-facto oblast […]
Belarus Election Alert #6
Photo: www.newsabc.net Human rights activists in Belarus have called this election campaign gross falsification of the vote and the official turnout during early voting, which was confirmed in a statement saying that “Belarus failed to live up to its constitutional and international commitments, unduly restricting political rights and fundamental freedoms during the election period”. […]