5 February, 2021
On January 21, the Department of Financial Investigations at the
Committee of State Control in Belarus started an investigation of the educational
human rights defence institution “Office for the Rights of People with
Disabilities.” The director, Sergey Drozdovskiy, and lawyer Oleg
Grablevsky were brought to the Committee, the accountant Tatiana
Krishtal had her phone and computer confiscated. Unidentified people
tried to enter the flat of the former deputy director Mikhail
Matskevich. The Committee announced as the official reason for detention the appropriation of resources received as gratuitous donations and foreign aid for the purpose of providing assistance to people with disabilities