{"id":3270,"date":"2023-09-29T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=3270"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"no-time-limit-for-persecution-of-opposition-members-investigative-committee-official","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/3270\/","title":{"rendered":"No time limit for persecution of opposition members \u2013 Investigative Committee official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 29,\u00a0<em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Minsk will not archive the case files of opposition members as expired, Investigative Committee Deputy Chairman Siarhiej Aziem\u0161a said in an interview with Russia&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Sputnik<\/em>, published today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Domestic and international practice shows us that even criminals who have evaded prosecution for almost their entire lives can be found,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The principle of inevitability must work without fail, and our task is to ensure it. But I should note that we will not add the exiles to the past crime list, as we are actively using a special procedure to issue verdicts on their criminal cases even before their arrest.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Aziem\u0161a, members of opposition groups such as the Coordination Council, Belpol and National Anti-Crisis Management (NAM), which he described as &#8220;self-proclaimed extremist and terrorist organizations,&#8221; were responsible for many crimes in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They tried to bring full-fledged organized crime back to our country. Can we let all this go unpunished? These people are real bandits, betrayers and traitors to the motherland,&#8221; he claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last spring, the Minsk City Court used the special procedure to sentence exiled Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja to 15 years in prison and a member of her United Transitional Cabinet, NAM head Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka, to 18 years. Members of the Coordination Council, Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation (BSSF) and other opposition groups have also received lengthy sentences&nbsp;<em>in absentia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 29,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0Minsk will not archive the case files of opposition members as expired, Investigative Committee Deputy Chairman Siarhiej Aziem\u0161a said in an interview with Russia&#8217;s\u00a0Sputnik, published today. &#8220;Domestic and international practice shows us that even criminals who have evaded prosecution for almost their entire lives can be found,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The principle of inevitability must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-3270","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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