Posts Tagged ‘election’
March 29th, 2011
Belarusian politician Ales Mikhalevich has been
granted political refugee
status in the Czech Republic. He was
imprisoned after
running against Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus’ presidential elections. He claims that he was tortured in the custody of secret police, and was stripped naked and hung by his hands. Mikhalevich was one of the seven other candidates
arrested during pro-democracy protests which saw more than 700 people detained.
January 14th, 2011
Two more journalists Andrzej Poczobut and Irina Charniauka were
detained by the KGB yesterday. The journalists’ house was raided and their computers confiscated by the authorities prior to their arrest. Poczobut is a correspondent for the Polish Daily Gazeta Wyborcza and Charniauka a freelance journalist. Over the last two weeks at least
seven independent reporters have been subject to raids by the KGB authorities following the unrest after the presidential election on 19 December.
December 29th, 2010
Nikolai Khalezin in hiding after the KGB issue arrest warrant for the co-founder of the Belarus Free Theatre. Mike Harris reports
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December 17th, 2010
Three activists from opposition Malady Front were detained in front of the presidential office. Uladzimer Yaromenak, Eduard Lobau and Hanna Sharuba were holding placards demanding President
Alyaksandr Lukashenka to step down. Earlier last week
supporters of opposition candidates were attacked in the western region of Hrodna while distributing leaflets. Belarus’ presidential election is taking place on 19 December 2010.
October 27th, 2010
Security forces in Alexandria have
arrested over 50 people hanging posters in support of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is
banned from putting up electoral candidates but circumvents the restrictions by fielding candidates as independents. The move is even more contentious given that Alexandria is a Brotherhood stronghold. Since 9 October, when they announced they would stand in November’s parliamentary elections, about 250 Brotherhood members have been detained. An official has said the posters breached a law forbidding the use of religious slogans for election purposes. This follows
Tuesday’s threat by the largest liberal opposition party to boycott the election after state television refused to air its political adverts.
March 23rd, 2010
Belarus’s Supreme Court has stripped the Belarusian Association of Journalist’s (BAJ)
ability to offer protection to journalists who are not officially authorised, such as opposition newspapers, websites and foreign news outlets.These journalists could now face 15 days in jail. BAJ president Zhanna Litvina said yesterday that this will discourage independent media coverage in the run-up to the elections. This comes a week after Charter97, an opposition website and are a nominee for this year’s
Index On Censorship Freedom of Expression awards had its
offices raided and its head of press beaten.
February 5th, 2010
An Iraqi appeals panel has
lifted a ban on hundreds of candidates barred from standing in impending Iraqi election because of their suspected links to Saddam’s Baathist party. In a compromise negotiated by
President Jalal Talabani, if the disputed candidates are elected an appeals court will examine their records for links to the former regime.
August 7th, 2009
Iranian authorities have shut down the Association of Iranian Journalists, when armed men raided and sealed the Tehran offices. Five journalists have been released in the past week including: Massoud Kurdpour, who just completed a one year jail term, Ali-Reza Beheshti, editor-in-chief of Kalameh Sabz and Kambiz Nouroozi, and director of legal affairs at the Association of Iranian Journalists. CPJ has also confirmed the arrest of Fatima Khavari, director of the weekly newspaper Chragh and Omid Selimi, a photographer who worked for Nesf e Jehan newspaper in Esfahan. Read more
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