{"id":43809,"date":"2022-09-20T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/whistleblower-aleh-alkajeu-dies-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"whistleblower-aleh-alkajeu-dies-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43809\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Aleh A\u0142kaje\u016d dies in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>September 20, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Aleh A\u0142kaje\u016d, former head of Detention Center No.1 in Minsk, has died in Germany aged 69, <span>Na\u0161a Niva<\/span> reported citing a friend of the deceased.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A forensic medical examination will establish the cause of death. A\u0142kaje\u016d could have died because of a blood clot, according to the source.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t After publicly accusing Belarusian authorities of kidnapping and possibly murdering Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s opponents in 1999, A\u0142kaje\u016d fled Belarus and settled down in Germany.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t He managed to smuggle out detention center&#8217;s weapons records. These show that that the interior minister authorized the issue of the &#8220;death penalty&#8221; pistol on the days when opposition politicians disappeared, although officially no executions were recorded at the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Evidence uncovered by critics of the Belarusian government suggests that security officers used the gun to murder opposition politicians Yury Zacharanka and Viktar Han\u010dar and businessman Anatol Kraso\u016dski in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 20, BPN. Aleh A\u0142kaje\u016d, former head of Detention Center No.1 in Minsk, has died in Germany aged 69, Na\u0161a Niva reported citing a friend of the deceased. A forensic medical examination will establish the cause of death. A\u0142kaje\u016d could have died because of a blood clot, according to the source. After publicly accusing Belarusian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43809","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\/ -->\n<title>Whistleblower Aleh A\u0142kaje\u016d dies in Germany | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 20, BPN. 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