Belarus ex-police stands trial over vanished Lukashenko opponents

Updated 2 days ago · Published on 19 Sep 2023 1:40PM · 0 Comments

Switzerland puts on trial today a former member of an elite Belarusian police unit allegedly responsible for the enforced disappearances of three major political opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko (pictured) in 1999. – EPA pic, September 19, 2023.

A LANDMARK trial opens today in Switzerland of a former member of an elite Belarusian police unit allegedly behind the disappearances of political opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko nearly a quarter century ago.  

Yury Garavsky, 44, will appear in court in the northeastern Swiss canton of St. Gallen, accused of having participated in the enforced disappearances in 1999 of three major political opponents of Lukashenko.  

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