Kazulin’s Lawyers to File a Suit against Lukashenka :: Charter'97 :: News

Lawyers of the prisoner, a former candidate for presidency in Belarus Alyaksandr Kazulin, are preparing a complaint with the prosecutor’s office against president Alyaksandr Lukashenka. As said by the political prisoner’s lawyer Ihar Rynkevich, Alyaksandr Kazulin is charging the president with libel and insult, and with rigging presidential vote results.

“We prepared documents on the fact of libelling in March last year. In particular, it concerns the incident when at the II All-Belarusian congress Lukashenka take the liberty of making some statements about my client. For a long time we haven’t been bringing up this issue, as Alyaksandr Kazulin believed it could be viewed as a private vengeance,” Ihar Rynkevich said.

The lawyer has also commented the refusal to the Conservative Christian party Belarusian Popular Front to initiate a criminal action against the president. “Bringing up criminal cases is in fact out of the capacity of the Supreme Court. That is why we are going to file the Prosecutor’s Office,” Ihar Rynkevich said.

Earlier “Telegraf” informed that on November 23 Lukashenka said to Ukrainian journalists that in reality 93.5% of voters supported him during the presidential elections. However he agreed to reduce this figure to please European observers.

“The last election has been rigged by us,” the head of the state said then.

At the same time, the Belarusian prosecutor’s office refused to bring up a criminal action related to the confession of the Belarusian president who said spring election results had been rigged. The answer of the head of the prosecutor’s office to the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka states that they “do not have information about concrete facts of falsifications during the votes counting at election on March 19, 2006 in Belarus”.