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Aug. 12, 2004
BELARUSIAN NGOS NOTE MOUNTING PRESSURE ON OPPOSITION ELECTION CANDIDATES



The Civic Initiative Partnership (Partnyorstva), a bloc of registered Belarusian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) intends to field some 3,500 monitors for the 17 October parliamentary elections in Belarus, thus covering one-fourth of all polling stations in the country's 110 election districts, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported on 11 August. "Our first conclusion [regarding the ongoing election campaign] is that pressure on the persons and organizations that have declared their participation in the elections is increasing," Partnership coordinator Mikola Astreyka said. "Both court measures - for example, the ban on a political party - and illegal or even violent means - the destruction of property or threats of physical violence - are in use." The Vyasna human right groups recently noted that only 20 out of the 318 candidacies proposed by opposition parties. The figure accounts to 1.2 percent of the commissions' total membership of 1,430.


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