Belarus: Pre-Election Violations and Violence · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

br23 blog reports on a politically eventful – and alarming – day in Belarus: an opposition candidate gets beaten, detained and charged with criminal offense after tearing the president's posters off the police station walls, thus endangering his chances to run in the upcoming election; several journalists get beaten; police fire three shots at a journalist driving away in his car; police prevents several thousand people from meeting with another opposition candidate.