Svyatlana Zavadskaya: “Resolution of UN Committee on Human Rights Gives Us Hope” :: Charter'97 :: News

“Investigation of the cases of disappeared people in Belarus has become one of the essential demands of the third resolution of the UN commission on Human Rights. It gives us a hope that soon we are to find out what had happened to our loved ones in reality,” stated the leader of the civil initiative “We Remember”, member of the Council of Civil initiatives “Free Belarus” Svyatlana Zavadskaya, commenting on the adoption of the resolution by the UN Committee on Human Rights top the Charter’97.

Svyatlana Zavadskaya also considers absolutely right the demand of the UN Committee on human rights to shelve high-ranking Belarusian officials suspected of involvement in abductions and disappearances of political opponents in Belarus, and after a full-fledged investigation to bring them to account. As we have unformed, the main suspects in politically motivated abductions are former Prosecutor General Viktar Shejman, Interior Minister Uladzimir Navumau, Sports and Tourism Minister, former Interior Minister Yuri Sivakou, and SWAT commander Dzmitry Paulichenka.

The wife of the journalist disappeared in 2000 also welcomes the consolidation of the positions of the EU and USA on the Belarusian question. The resolution on situation in Belarus had been considered by the UN Committee on Human Rights on the initiative of the EU and the USA.