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The crimes of the Lukashenko regime have not been forgotten: a former SOBR soldier was convicted in Switzerland of the kidnapping of 's rival 27 years after the disappearance of Lukashenko's political opponents, the court in St. Gallen found Yury Grabsky guilty of the kidnapping of opposition Kravsky, together with the businessman An99, who kidnapped the businessman An919. Victor Goncher. The penalty is two years of probation. At the same time, Garevski was not convicted of Krasovski's murder, and in the case of the disappearance of the former head of the Interior Ministry, Yuri Zakharenko, the acquittal remained in effect. In 2019, Grabsky himself said that three of Lukashenko's opponents were kidnapped and killed by SOBR troops under the command of Dmitry Pavlichenko. At the trial he also stated that the orders came from the then Minister of the Interior Yuriy Sivakov, which in turn were given to him by Viktor Sheiman and Alexander Lukashenko personally. This is the first conviction in a case of enforced disappearance in Belarus issued under universal jurisdiction.

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The crimes of the Lukashenko regime have not been forgotten: a former SOBR soldier was convicted in Switzerland of the kidnapping of 's rival 27 years after the disappearance of Lukashenko's political opponents, the court in St. Gallen found Yury Grabsky guilty of the kidnapping of opposition Kravsky, together with the businessman An99, who kidnapped the businessman An919. Victor Goncher. The penalty is two years of probation. At the same time, Garevski was not convicted of Krasovski's murder, and in the case of the disappearance of the former head of the Interior Ministry, Yuri Zakharenko, the acquittal remained in effect. In 2019, Grabsky himself said that three of Lukashenko's opponents were kidnapped and killed by SOBR troops under the command of Dmitry Pavlichenko. At the trial he also stated that the orders came from the then Minister of the Interior Yuriy Sivakov, which in turn were given to him by Viktor Sheiman and Alexander Lukashenko personally. This is the first conviction in a case of enforced disappearance in Belarus issued under universal jurisdiction.

The crimes of the Lukashenko regime have not been forgotten: a former SOBR soldier was convicted in Switzerland of the kidnapping of 's rival 27 years after the disappearance of Lukashenko's political opponents, the court in St. Gallen found Yury Grabsky guilty of the kidnapping of opposition Kravsky, together with the businessman An99, who kidnapped the businessman An919. Victor Goncher. The penalty is two years of probation. At the same time, Garevski was not convicted of Krasovski's murder, and in the case of the disappearance of the former head of the Interior Ministry, Yuri Zakharenko, the acquittal remained in effect. In 2019, Grabsky himself said that three of Lukashenko's opponents were kidnapped and killed by SOBR troops under the command of Dmitry Pavlichenko. At the trial he also stated that the orders came from the then Minister of the Interior Yuriy Sivakov, which in turn were given to him by Viktor Sheiman and Alexander Lukashenko personally. This is the first conviction in a case of enforced disappearance in Belarus issued under universal jurisdiction.

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