protest candidates

Minsk, Brest, Hrodna, Vitsebsk, Mahiliou, Baranavichy

On May 20, nine so called protest candidates are being tried in Tsentralny district court of Minsk.

A group of the so called protest candidates who were filing a complaint to the Supreme Court have been detained in Minsk, former political prisoner and 2010 presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich told Belsat.

On May 14, former political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich and his associates came to the Central Election Commission in Minsk, seeking to get the so-called protest candidates’ initiative groups registered.