Ex-Belarus Official Faces Appeal Against Acquittal over Forced Disappearances in Swiss Court
Relatives seek to overturn a 2023 acquittal in a rare universal-jurisdiction case over the 1999 disappearance of three opposition figures.
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IN SWITZERLAND, the appeal process against Yuri Harauski, a former member of the Belarusian security forces, who was acquitted of charges of participation in the forced disappearances of opposition politicians, is beginning.
Ex-Belarus official faces appeal against acquittal over forced disappearances in Swiss court
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A former Belarusian security official is due in a Swiss court on Tuesday as an appeal begins against his acquittal on charges of participating in the forced disappearance of opposition figures in Belarus. A...
A former official of the security services in Belarus, Yuri Harauski, presents himself on Tuesday before a court in Switzerland, where he begins the appeal against the decision by which he was acquitted in 2023 of the charges concerning the forced disappearance of opponents of Aleksandr Lukashenko's regime.
On the 22nd of September, the Court of Schweizarskag to the canton of St. Gallen saw the appeal of the court in Rorschach in 2023, as an ex-bait of the Belarusian Spatsyalnaga atradu Hutkaga Raagawanna (SAHR) Yuri Garauskag.
Today, in Switzerland, an appeal against the acquittal of a former SOBI soldier, Yuri Garavsky, reports "Viasna" In 2019, Garabsky himself confessed to the disappearance of former Minister of the Interior Yuri Zaharenko, former Vice-Premier Victor Gonchar and businessman Anatoli Krasovsky, but in September 2023 the District Court of Rorschach acquitted him.
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