16-гадоваму Мікіту Залатарову прысудзілі 5 гадоў калоніі за «масавыя беспарадкі». Фота: ЛШ / Белсат
In the public sector, purges of those suspected of disloyalty are expanding. The state is completing the rout of civil society as the judiciary, nomenklatura and security forces plunder businesses. A fundamentally different incentive system and principles of governance are being created.
The state anticipates the possible resurgence of protests this spring and is stepping up measures to counter this, exposing civil society and ordinary citizens to indiscriminate repression. The past week’s show trials demonstrate that the security forces can injure or kill citizens with impunity. A witness to the death of Hienadz Shutau, who was killed by security forces in Brest, is on trial accused alongside Shutau of attempted murder of a policeman; the prosecutor has requested a sentence of 10 years. Shutau’s death
Lawlessness will not pass.
Minsk partisans remind that by February 11, 2021, a criminal case should be initiated into the murder of
Aliaksandr Taraikouski, reports the Basta! Telegram channel. Instead, the authorities appointed the so-called All-Belarusian National Assembly for this date, and decided to engage in endless checks, which are not enshrined by the law in case of a murder!
Thus, they want to shift attention. But we stand against lawlessness! the readers of the channel write.
Ward encourages fellow politicians to ‘adopt’ a political prisoner to show solidarity with Belarus
22nd January 2021 - Senator Barry Ward
Fine Gael Dún Laoghaire Senator, Barry Ward, is encouraging fellow politicians to ‘adopt’ a political prisoner from Belarus to show solidarity with the country as they deal with the aftermath of a fraudulent election.
Senator Ward, who has raised the issue of the Belarussian election in the Seanad on a number of occasions, said: “The presidential election in Belarus last August has been widely discredited as having been fraudulent. The European Commission, the Irish Government and many governments across the EU have come out against Alexander Lukashenko and rejected the validity of the election result, with the European Commission describing it as ‘neither free nor fair’.
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The barbed wire corral was planned to be used during the warmer months.
In Colony No. 22 in Ivatsevichy, a special corral was built for the detained protesters, fenced off with barbed wire. This was stated by the representative of the ByPOL initiative - former investigator
Andrei Astapovich, euroradio.fm reports. In Ivatsevichy, we had already received information that there really was a moment when some pillars were inserted with barbed wire - as they were making a corral, you know. They actually made a corral for people because then there was seven thousand one day at most. And they did not know where to take them, - Astapovich said.
According to international law, the police gave the order to commit crimes.
The international human rights organization Amnesty International is demanding an investigation into the facts from the audio recording made public by the ByPOL initiative, in which a man with a voice similar to that of Deputy Interior Minister
Mikalai Karpiankou speaks of (tough methods of fighting protesters), naviny.by reported. This recording - if it is authentic - is the most horrifying out of a string of incriminating leaks showing that the Belarusian authorities have made a decision to suppress a peaceful protest through deliberate human rights violations, the organization s website quoted the deputy director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia