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Kastrychnitski District Prosecutor Liavonchyk Takes Shocking Photos

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Kastrychnitski District Prosecutor Liavonchyk Takes Shocking Photos

You won't believe it when you see what he did for the spectacular shot.

Such tabloid-style headlines come to mind when you see the photo of the prosecutor of Kastrychnitski district Andrei Liavonchyk: the photo on the website features an article about the professional holiday. The prosecutor is holding a weighty volume with the inscription "Human Rights" in his hands, while the rest books of the three-volume edition lie next to him.

The uninformed person will not see anything strange in it. After all, the purpose of the Prosecutor's Office is to monitor compliance with the laws, and hence the rights.

But it is very funny to those who have at least indirectly come into contact with the topic of human rights. International human rights law is a branch of international law that regulates relations between man and state; to be more precise, it does not allow the state to do anything what it wants with people: to prohibit to gather more than three persons, to hold fraudulent elections, to seize the court, the parliament and the government in one hand, to keep people illegally in prison and execute them...

That is why the governments of those countries that allow themselves to do all of these things do not like human rights so much.

Human rights defenders in Belarus are the target of constant persecution; the state resists their work with all its might: detains, arrests, searches, fines, jails, ridicules and slander. As for the observance of human rights in Belarus - and fulfillment of international obligations undertaken by our state - the number of individual complaints to the UN Human Rights Committee shows it all. Belarus is one of the record-breaking countries; the government has never implemented the Committee's recommendations. The UN has even established a special position: a special rapporteur, who repeatedly reports that freedom of assembly, speech, association are not respected in Belarus; there is forced labor and constant harassment of human rights defenders, independent journalists and activists...

And the prosecutor of Kastrychnitski district chooses a three-volume book "Human Rights" - a collection of best practices of the UN Human Rights Committee - for the photo shoot. At the same time, the Committee recognized the appeal against the court decision through the prosecutor's supervision as ineffective - an eloquent "compliment" to the Belarusian Prosecutor's Office.

Did the prosecutor realize how bitter a mockery of human rights in Belarus the book looked in his hands? Or does he not even understand the essence of this branch of international law?

All we have to do is to guess - just as when watching the government delegation of Belarus during its speeches at the UN: we want to build international relations, but we don't want to fulfill our international obligations.

Yauhenia Stryzhak, Homelskaya Viasna

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