Leaders of the party coalition “Five Plus” brought up an action in the Supreme Court for violation of the Electoral code while forming district commissions, told the United Civil Party leader Anatol Lyabedzka to the BelaPAN. This decision was made at the sitting of the coalition on August 18. As we have informed, from 318 people nominated for members of district commissions only 20 were approved.

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It is an opinion of the Secretary General of the Russian PEN-Center Alexandr Tkachenko. In his interview to the BelaPAN agency on August 18 in Moscow he told: “The incident with the EHU (European Humanities University) shows that the authorities do not need “too intelligent”. They need manpower, which without philosophizing, simply and unpretentiously, would create surplus product. It means, you should not think, just accept as your due what you are told”. From that arises the slogan of the Belarusian authorities about “overproduction of humanities scholars, and necessity of mass schooling of engineers and other ‘technicians’, which are to ‘invent screw-nuts’”, told A.Tkachenko.

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A trial where Alyaksandar Shavel, the lawyer of the human rights center “Viasna” is to appear, will take place in Byaroza. On August 18 he took part in a civil trial and made a critical remark to the prosecutor, after that he was accused of contempt of court. From the courtroom he was taken to the police department of Byaroza region, where a report have been lodged against him for this violation. Now he is waiting for the sitting of the court.

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An Amnesty International branch from the city of Nootdorp has sent an open letter to Alyaksandar Lukashenka. Activists from the Netherlands insist on restarting an investigation of the case on disappearance of Dzmitry Zavadsky. The Amnesty International activists refer to the recent application of Zavadsky’s mother, Volha Zavadskaya, to the Prosecutor’s Office with the demand to restart a process on the case of the disappeared reporter, on "newly discovered evidence" and to interrogate Lukashenka as a witness.

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