Viktar Bury, candidate for Parliament representing the Fair World Party, has not been able to present his election programme on TV, radio and in state-run newspapers.

According to Valery Rybchanka, candidate for Parliament representing the Fair World Party, his rival Leanid Apanasiuk, chairman of Zhlobin district executive committee, has held a number of meetings with employees of the Belarusian Steel Works on the premises of the enterprise.

Valery Karankevich, member of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and candidate for Parliament in Krychau constituency No. 83, has lodged a complaint with the prosecutor of Klimavichy district Aliaksandr Zemliakou against Mrs. Maryia Prakopchyk, head of the district executive committee’s ideology department, who banned the candidate’s election picket scheduled for 12 September.

According to Aliaksandr Shylovich, candidate running for Parliament in Slutsk constituency No. 67, some of his relatives and friends working at state-owned enterprises have received threats from their employees.

Ryhor Kastusiou, candidate representing the Belarusian Popular Front in Shklou constituency No. 90, has lodged a complaint with the Central Election Commission, saying that “candidate A. Aheyeu has abused administrative resources” to canvass for votes.

The owners of a number of stores in Brest have been reluctant to allow posting election leaflets in their windows, observers of the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign report.

Representatives of the Rechytsa-based “Tytul” state-owned printing firm say the company will only be able to produce 5,000 out of 10,000 election leaflets ordered by local alternative candidate Anton Niafiodau. The firm managers say the amount is sure to spoil the printer.

Alena Famina, member of the Social Democratic Party “Narodnaya Hramada” running for Parliament in Vitsebsk constituency No. 17, has been searched today by the Belarusian customs officials, as she was going to Vilnius.

Yesterday, representatives of the “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” campaign have had a meeting with members of the election observation mission deployed by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The meeting was also attended by Co-ordinator of the OSCE short-term observer mission Mateo Mecacci.

Having studied the interim report on election observation produced by the CIS’s mission, Mazyr human rights defender Uladzimir Tseliapun, referring to his personal experience as a long-term observer, argues that it is not so “calm” and “in compliance with the Electoral Code” as the mission’s report claims.

Judge Aksana Ratnikava of Mahiliou Leninski District Court has fined Yury Novikau, regional coordinator of the “For Free Elections 2012” observation campaign, 4 mln. rubles for distributing products with the campaign’s logo, including observers’ notebooks, guidelines and election newsletters.

The Mahiliou-based Spirydon Sobal printing firm has refused to produce the election leaflets of local opposition candidate Uladzimir Shantsau, on the ground that they called on voters to boycott the elections.

The police of Khotsimsk (Mahiliou region) have detained today candidate Valery Karankevich during an election picket staged in an authorized place.

Mikalai Zalozny, Mahiliou activist of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada), has been forced to quit his job as a plumber at a state-owned hostel, after a campaign of harassment reportedly caused by the activist’s involvement in the current elections.

Vitsebsk opposition candidates Alena Famina and Aliaksei Haurutsikau have not been able to have their election fliers printed for five days already, as they suspect sabotage by a local printing firm to prevent the candidates from distributing the leaflets at today’s meetings with voters.