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Article: BELARUS: GOVERNMENT IMPLICATED IN DISAPPEARANCE OF JOURNALIST.(Dmitri Zavadski)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 24, 2001
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In a letter to President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Reporters without Borders (RSF) asked that light be shed on the disappearance of cameraman Dmitri Zavadski. "Two officials from the Prosecutor-General's Office recently denounced the existence of a "death squad" which was reportedly created by current highly placed state officials and which is allegedly responsible for several disappearances, including that of Dmitri Zavadski," noted Robert Menard, the organization's secretary-general. According to the RSF, in a press release issued on 11 June, two officials in the Belarusian Prosecutor-General's Office, Dmitri Petrushkevic, who oversees the Zavadski case, and Oleg Slutshev ...