Foreign agents’ law prohibits citizen observation of elections
EPDE STATEMENT: “Foreign agents” law and its impact on independent citizen election observation in the Russian Federation ahead of the September 2021 State Duma election. On the eve of the federal parliamentary election campaign, the Russian State Duma hastily passes a whole package of repressive laws aimed at restricting Russian citizens’ participation in political and […]
Foreign agents law expanded ahead of 2021 State Duma election
Interior of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, January 20, 2017. Source: hrw.org (Reuters) With each national election in Russia, the presidential administration develops a strategy for achieving the Kremlin’s electoral goals. One element of the strategy for the 2021 State Duma elections that became obvious early on, is to allow a large […]
Foreign agents law expanded ahead of 2021 State Duma election
Recently passed amendments to the ‘foreign agents’ law in Russia increases the number of organizations at risk of being labelled as ‘foreign agents’ and would force election candidates who received funding or other resources from an organization or person registered as a ‘foreign agent’ to also label themselves as a ‘foreign agent’. There is serious […]
Statement of Solidarity over the Arrest of Citizen Observers of the Uganda 2021 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
Campaign posters for declared winner Yoweri Museveni in Uganda’s 2021 presidential election. Source: dw.com EPDE joins the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors (GNDEM), a network of 251 citizen observer groups located in 89 countries, in condemning the arrest and detainment of 27 citizen observers on January 14, 2021. The arrests made at the […]
Human Rights Situation in Belarus in 2020
SUMMARY the 2020 presidential election took place against the background of continuous repressions, including against direct participants in the presidential race: members of nomination groups and nominees, as well as bloggers, political activists, journalists and independent observers; the election themselves did not meet the standards of free and democratic elections, as they were marred by […]