{"id":202191,"date":"2026-09-02T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/202191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:21:57","slug":"belarus-prosecutor-general-discusses-extradition-of-criminals-with-georgian-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/202191\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 prosecutor general discusses extradition of \u201ccriminals\u201d with Georgian ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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September 2, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarus\u2019 Prosecutor General D\u017amitryj Hara met with Georgian Ambassador Giorgi Saganelidze in Minsk on Wednesday to discuss the extradition of criminals, according to the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hara and Saganelidze discussed cooperation \u201cin the area of criminal law,\u201d with Hara informing the ambassador \u201cabout the state of Belarusian\u2011Georgian cooperation in providing mutual legal assistance in criminal cases, handing over criminal cases for prosecution as well as extraditing persons who have committed crimes,\u201d the agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They agreed \u201cto strengthen cooperation in every possible way for the sake of protecting the rights and legitimate interests of citizens of both states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s regime had stepped up its attempts to use Interpol for the persecution of its opponents, with new arrests occurring almost every week, said Leanid Maroza\u016d, an aide to Belarusian pro-democracy leader Sviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja, at the New Belarus Conference in Warsaw on August 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Maroza\u016d, the regime is hunting for its opponents abroad and fabricating cases against them to make their extradition requests appear unrelated to politics. \u201cLiterally the latest case was in Argentina,\u201d he said. \u201c[Another one was] in very safe Italy. Not to mention Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, a visa-free country for Belarusians, is home to about 12,000 citizens of Belarus, many of whom fled their country for fear of politically motivated persecution after the 2020 presidential election, but their number keeps shrinking. Georgia has not granted asylum to a single Belarusian under the Georgian Dream government of pro-Russian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili over the past seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Georgian authorities have been expelling Belarusians on a regular basis as part of their anti-immigration campaign, with eight expulsions in January-March 2026 alone, compared with six in 2025 and only three between 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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