News on the topic: political disappearances
28.05.2008 Sviatlana Zavadskaya sues Mikhail Tsitsiankou
Sviatlana Zavadskaya, widow of the forcibly kidnapped ORT TV cameraman, appealed to court against the decision of Mikhail Titsenkou, deputy head of the Minsk city executive committee, on banning a picket, dedicated to the anniversary of disappearing of Yury Zakharanka, the former minister of the internal affairs.
08.05.2008 Young Democrats collect signatures for installment of memorial shield to Zakharanka
Yury Zakharanka, former minister of internal affairs, was kidnapped 7 May 1999. The Young Democrats marked this mournful date by collecting signatures for installment of a memorial shield to Yury Zakharanka on the wall of the house in Zhukouski Street, 9, where he used to live.
08.05.2008 Action of United Civil Party in place of Zakharanka’s kidnap
8 May in Mahiliouskaya Street in Minsk, in the place where the ex-minister of internal affairs Yury Zakharanka had been kidnapped nine years ago, activists of the United Civil Party including its chairman Anatol Liabedzka have carried out an action in his memory.
07.05.2008 Minsk authorities ban picket in memory of Yury Zakharanka
Sviatlana Zavadskaya, widow of kidnapped ORT TV channel operator Zmitser Zavadski, received a refusal from the deputy head of Minsk city executive committee to her application on holding a picket in Minsk on 7 May, dedicated to the 9th anniversary of disappearance of General Yury Zakharanka.
16.01.2008 Miklashevich Proposes to Humanize Legislation
On January 16th Belarusian Prosecutor General Piotr Miklashevich answered the questions of journalists about the celebrated criminal cases and the work of the Prosecutor’s General Office in 2007.
28.11.2007 Address of Relatives of Abducted Politicians and a Journalist to Prosecutor General
One of the 12th recommendations of the EU to Belarus is “holding due independent investigation or revision of the cases of citizens’ disappearance”. On October 30 relatives of the oppositionists abducted in Belarus, Zinaida Hanchar, Iryna Krasouskaya, Svyatlana Zavadskaya, Volha Zavadskaya, and their legal representatives Harry Pahanyajla and Aleh Vouchak have handed over to the prosecutor general of Belarus a document, based on public investigation of these high-profile cases.
15.10.2007 European March: No Detentions
The march and rally ended without detentions of activists
28.09.2007 Investigation of General Zaharanka’s Disappearance Extended Again
The investigation is extended for three months,
