Belarusian parliament's upper chamber passes amendments to laws on extremism
MINSK, 21 April (BelTA) – Members of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus have passed a bill on amending the laws on counteracting extremism, BelTA has learned.
Prosecutor General Andrei Shved said: “It is very important for us that the Council of the Republic has passed a bill aimed at counteracting extremism. The proposals and novelties the bill incorporates have been prompted by life, by the need to protect our country, sovereignty, our territorial integrity.”
In his words, international experience was taken into account in the course of preparing the bill. “The norms the bill stipulates provide for a complex of balanced measures. Those are prophylactic, preventive, and punishing measures. In other words, the state takes every measure not only to punish but primarily to prevent, to detect and, only after those measures are implemented, to decide on the responsibility of these persons,” the prosecutor general noted.