Top police officer who beat journo, put down protests appointed Lukashenka’s aide

Ihar Yauseyeu has been appointed aide to the Belarusian president, inspector for Minsk region.

Earlier, he was Head of Minsk Region Direstorate of Interior and Head of Vitsebsk Region Directorate of Interior.

Yauseyeu is notorious for his role in crackdown on the peaceful post-election demonstration on December 19, 2010, when hundreds of people were arrested and beaten. He gave a kick to photographer Uladz Hrydzin, which was filmed by independent journalists.

In 2011, being Head of Minsk community safety police, Ihar Yauseyeu took the lead in putting down silent protests in the summer of 2011. He is believed to have come up with the idea of suppressing silent protests when plainclothes policemen caught protesters and passers-by in the streets, dragged them into cars without number plates and took to police stations. It is particularly remarkable that after such ‘kidnappings’ Yauseyeu repeatedly made public statements that ‘there were no violations of law and order’. In its turn, the Ministry of Interior declined to answer on whose order the plain-cloth persons were acting.

In June 2013, Alyaksandr Lukashenka promoted police colonel Yauseyeu to the rank of general major. He was also awarded the order “For Service to the Motherland.” Until recently, he was blacklisted by the EU.

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