Yuri Harauski will be tried in a Swiss court over the disappearance of two political opponents of Alexander Lukashenko and a businessman
A former member of the Belarusian special security forces unit overseen by, the authoritarian president, is to stand trial in Switzerland next month over the forced disappearance of political opponents in the 1990s.
The victims, who disappeared between May and September 1999, were Yury Zakharenka, the former minister of the interior; Viktar Hanchar, a former deputy prime minister during the early years of Lukashenko’s presidency; and Anatoly Krasouski, a businessman and close friend of Hanchar. Attempts by their families to obtain information from Belarusian authorities about their whereabouts have been blocked for years by police and security officials.
Lukashenko’s regime has come under increasing criticism for its crushing of opposition movements that intensified three years ago after a disputed election in 2020. Opposition figures have been persecuted at home and abroad, and those imprisoned in Belarus claim to have been tortured.in 2018, according to Belarusian monitors. He was highly vocal about his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Lukashenko’s opponents in 1999, even making public confessions about them in media interviews.
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