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Aleh Belakoneu, a former head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, ventured upon a controversial statement during Friday’s farewell ceremony for the killed KGB officer Dzmitry Fedasyuk. It was published by the Telegram channel Sputnik Belarus.

A criminal case was opened

ByPol, a campaign created by opposition-minded people who earlier belonged to Belarusian uniformed services, has published a new investigation into the circumstances of Minsk protester Raman Bandarenka’s death. The activist was savagely beaten on November 11, allegedly by security forces or Lukashenka’s adherers.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus has suspended the criminal case on the death of Minsk resident Raman Bandarenka. The Minsk activist was savagely beaten on November 11, reportedly by police officers or Lukashenka’s adherers.

On August 2, Vital Shyshou, the head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, went for a run and disappeared.

Death row inmate Viktar Paulau was ‘most likely executed’, the convict’s sister Raisa told Andrey Paluda, coordinator of the campaign ‘Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus’.

The Investigative Committee issued a press release about the death of political prisoner Vitold Ashurak in Shklou colony.

On Friday, the Belarusian human rights community has recognised Alyaksandr Kardzyukou, an eyewitness to the murder of 43-year-old Brest resident Henadz Shutau on August 11, a political prisoner.

Illya Kostseu (21) and Stanislau Kostseu (19), who were sentenced to death in January 2020, have been pardoned, human rights centre Viasna reports with reference to their family.

The Belarusian authorities are holding off on the decision to hand over the murdered Minsker’s body to his relatives.

On November 13, Alyaksandr Lukashenka expressed condolences to the family of the deceased Raman Bandarenka.