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Investigatory Committee Refuses To Provide Documents Related To Dzmitry Zavadzki’s Disappearance To His Widow

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Investigatory Committee Refuses To Provide Documents Related To Dzmitry Zavadzki’s Disappearance To His Widow
SVIATLANA ZAVADZKAYA
PHOTO: ZAVADSKY.ORG

Sviatlana Zavadzkaya plans to claim this decision of the Investigatory Committee.

The Investigatory Committee refused to provide copies of procedural documents of the criminal case on disappearance of TV-operator Dzmitry Zavadzki back in 2000, to his widow, informs the press-center of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

Sviatlana Zavadzkaya grounded her requests on the fact that, according to the law, she had been recognized as victim under the criminal case started upon her husband’s disappearance so she has a right to participate in criminal persecution of the accused in due course, and also to receive notifications regarding taking decisions that affect her interests, and copies thereof, from the organ carrying out the criminal case process.

In particular, in the requests sent to the Investigatory Committee in March and April, she asked to inform whether the preliminary investigation of the criminal case over Zavadzki’s disappearance, suspended in 2006, has been resumed, and if not, to name the reasons for that, and also applied for the copies of the resolutions from the case materials. Zavadzkaya needs the copies of procedural documents to complain about the actions (namely, the absence of actions) of the criminal persecution organ.

In the replies, received from the Investigatory Committee on April 11 and May 16, it is stated that the criminal proceedings had been suspended and the law does not prescribe the victim’s right to get the copies of the mentioned procedural documents.

According to the information of the journalist organization, Zavadzkaya plans to claim the received replies to Chairman of the Investigatory Committee Ivan Naskevich, and Prosecutor General Aliaksandr Kaniuk.

Belarusian TV-operator, correspondent of the ORT (today – the First Channel) Dzmitry Zavadzki completely disappeared in Belarus on July 7, 2000. He was 27 then.

In 1994 – 1997, Zavadzki worked in Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s operator pool, then started working at the ORT. In Spring 1997, he was arrested together with ORT correspondent Pavel Sheremet and accused of illegal crossing of the Belarusian-Lithuanian border during shootings of the TV-report. He was sentenced to 1,5 years of probation. Since October 1999 till May 2000 Zavadzki worked in Chechnya, where he shot a movie “The Chechen Diary” together with Sheremet.

Early in the morning on July 7, 2000 Zavadzki left his house and went in the direction of the National Airport to meet Pavel Sheremet,who flew from Moscow. Nobody has seen the TV-operator since then. His car was found in the airport.

In 2002, Minsk regional court considered the group of the former fighter of the “Almaz” special detachment of the Interior Ministry Valery Ihnatovich, who met with Zavadzki in Chechnya, guilty of his kidnapping. Ihnatovich, as well as Maksim Malik, also found guilty of kidnapping, were sentenced to life-time imprisonment. In March 2004, the public prosecution suspended investigation of Zavadzki’s

kidnapping case “due to failure to find the missing person”. In 2005, the investigation was resumed and suspended again in April 2006.

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