Poland opens criminal investigation into crimes of Łukašenka’s regime – Center for Belarusian Solidarity

October 25, BPN. Polish prosecutors have opened several criminal cases to investigate “the [Alexander] Łukašenka regime’s crimes” committed after the 2020 presidential election, Volha Dabravolskaja, a lawyer with the Poland-based Center of the Belarusian Solidarity (CBS), told journalists.

She would not elaborate, citing the request of the Polish prosecutor’s office “to avoid publicity” during the investigation.

Dabravolskaja added that initially the CBS lawyers had to prove the importance of the cases to the Polish authorities. They have been helping prosecutors for about a year now, and several lawyers are involved in the cases.

In December 2021, Polish lawyer Tomasz Wiliński filed a complaint with the National Public Prosecutor’s Office of Poland on suspicion of genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Belarusian authorities.

On October 4, Pavieł Łatuška of the opposition’s transition cabined said that Lithuania had opened a criminal case against a Belarusian judge who handed down politically-motivated verdicts. He did not identify the suspect.

Universal jurisdiction implies extraterritorial principle of prosecution, including for crimes against humanity.