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Lawyer Of Mikalai Statkevich: Criminal Case Is Pulled Out Of Hat

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Lawyer Of Mikalai Statkevich: Criminal Case Is Pulled Out Of Hat
MIKALAI STATKEVICH
PHOTO: TUT.BY

This is not an investigation, but a circus show.

Lawyer Uladzimir Sazanchuk, who defends Mikalai Statkevich in a criminal case, has sent an open letter in connection with the lawlessness in the country, statkevich.org reports:

- I have never acted contrary to my conscience. In order not to do this, a year after Lukashenka was first elected (in 1994 - edit.), being at a young age with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, I quit the prosecutor's office.

As a member of the lawyer community, there comes a moment when you should admit that it is embarrassing to participate in the ongoing illegality and lawlessness in political cases, pretending that something depends on you.

When a criminal case is fully made up, you don't have to be a lawyer to conclude that there is no corpus delicti in the actions of all these arrested children, but you are required to sign a non-disclosure of preliminary investigation data in the case. What investigation, what case - are you serious?

This is not an investigation, but, as Mikalai Statkevich said during an administrative trial, a circus show. Although, it’s funny in the circus, but here people go to jail for nothing, and their relatives do not find this amusing.

Yesterday they admitted me to the defense of Statkevich. Today, I also concluded an agreement to defend blogger Dzmitry Kazlou, known as the Gray Cat.

I handed over the relevant notification and defense order to the investigating authorities in order to obtain permission for admission to the pre-trial detention center. They sent a text message by phone that permission was given, I was allowed to defend Kazlou, I could come for the relevant document.

When I arrived, they demanded I must sign an obligation on non-disclosure of the investigation data in this case, which is common for both Statkevich and blogger Kazlou, and the rest, since the registration number of this case is the same on all decisions. I rejected this offer. I filed a motivated written disagreement addressed to Head of the investigative group Ahafonau, a copy of which I am sending to the media. Then they said that in this case they would refuse to issue permission for access to Kazlou, and that I was no longer allowed to defend him.

What is this NDA for? In order to keep the secret of the open door secret, that there is no real case, no crime, as such. And further escalate horror stories about certain convicted elements detained together with Tsikhanouski in Hrodna.

I don’t know how many and who are those detainees. But by the nature of my work, I know that so many convicted people have an idea of decency, honor and conscience by which they act, unlike many servants of the current regime.

What are these guys in the case guilty of? They were not afraid to demand holding of democratic elections, and the resignation of Lukashenka. At the same time, they did not call for violence or pogroms.

However, Lukashenka cannot but remember the work of Lenin, revered by him, which he, like me, in his student days had to note that the people in certain situations even have the right to armed uprising.

Neither these guys called, nor I call for an armed rebellion. But the right to peaceful rallies, meetings, expression of one’s opinion, agitation is a constitutional right. And the fact that it is emasculated by subordinate regulatory acts, this already applies to that lawlessness, which I mentioned above.

I was not allowed to defend Kazlou, now let’s see how they will withdraw me from participation in the defense of Statkevich, which I am currently implementing.

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