Militia can’t find kidnappers of "European Belarus" activist Afnahel
- 19.02.2010, 18:44
The European Belarus activists were said investigation of a criminal case on his abduction in December 2009 was suspended.
The notice was signed by senior interrogating officer of the preliminary investigation office of the Pershamaiski district militia department Slizh. The document says the criminal case was suspended because a person, who committed the crime, hadn’t been identified. However, the criminal is being searched.
On December 6, 2009, Yauhen Afnahel was abducted and taken out of town. Abductors took away cell phone’s and camera’s batteries from Afnahel. The activist says the secret services are involved in his abduction. He recognized a riot militiaman in one of the people who had spied upon him before the abduction.
Afnahel has no doubts the abduction was organized by the secret services. He thinks instigating a case over the article “theft” as an attempt to hush up political grounds and turn the case of abduction into a common theft.
“The criminal case was opened in December last year. During the month of investigation, I received one telephone call from militia to verify my mobile phone number and some facts in my complaint. I said I could identify the riot militiaman who had searched me 15minutes before the abduction, but no actions were taken to identify the riot militiaman and people involved in the crime. I think the investigators know who stand behind abductions of opposition activists and do not take actions to search for them. I believe the time will come when abductors and those who hide them will be brought to responsibility,” Yauhen Afnahel commented on the notice.
Some loud cases of abduction were recorded in Belarus at he end of 2009. Young Front leader Zmitser Dashkevich, coordinator of the civil campaign European Belarus Yauhen Afnahel, European Belarus activist Uladzimir Lemesh, Young Belarus leader Artur Finkevich are kidnapped by unknown people for some days. The same happened to Young Front activists Nasta Palazhanka and Dzyanis Karnou in March 2009. Unknonwn people forced oppositionists into cars, took them out of Minsk, left in desolated places, beat and threatened them with bodily harm.