Dmitry Zavadsky
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Dzmitry Zavadski was a Belarus
ian cameraman of Russian Public Television ORT
.
On July 7, 2000 Dzmitry Zavadski drove to the Minsk
airport to meet colleague Pavel Sharamyet. His car was later found at the airport, but Zavadski has not been seen since.
The Belarusian authorities failed to determine the fates of Dzmitry Zavadski or those of leading opposition figures Jury Zacharanka
and Viktar Hanchar
, as well as that of businessman Anatol Krasouski who also disappeared in 1999 and 2000.
Belarus came under international criticism, despite the conviction by Minsk Regional Court on March 14, 2002 of four men (two of whom were former members of the elite Belarusian police unit Almaz
) of crimes including the kidnapping of Dzmitry Zavadski. His body was never recovered and the circumstances of his presumed death were not explained.
Human rights monitors regarded the behind-closed-doors trial and convictions as flawed. In September 2002 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
stated that it was “seriously concerned about the lack of progress” and established an investigative sub-committee to probe into the “disappearances.”
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian cameraman of Russian Public Television ORT
Channel One (Russia)
Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...
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On July 7, 2000 Dzmitry Zavadski drove to the Minsk
Minsk
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airport to meet colleague Pavel Sharamyet. His car was later found at the airport, but Zavadski has not been seen since.
The Belarusian authorities failed to determine the fates of Dzmitry Zavadski or those of leading opposition figures Jury Zacharanka
Jury Zacharanka
Colonel Yury Zakharanka was the Belarusian minister of internal affairs and oppositional politician abducted and probably killed in 1999....
and Viktar Hanchar
Viktar Hanchar
Viktar Hanchar was a Belarusian politician who disappeared and was presumably killed in 1999.Hanchar graduated from the Belarusian State University Law faculty in 1979 and worked as law research worker at different major Belarusian institutions....
, as well as that of businessman Anatol Krasouski who also disappeared in 1999 and 2000.
Belarus came under international criticism, despite the conviction by Minsk Regional Court on March 14, 2002 of four men (two of whom were former members of the elite Belarusian police unit Almaz
Almaz
The Almaz program was a series of military space stations launched by the Soviet Union under cover of the civilian Salyut DOS-17K program after 1971....
) of crimes including the kidnapping of Dzmitry Zavadski. His body was never recovered and the circumstances of his presumed death were not explained.
Human rights monitors regarded the behind-closed-doors trial and convictions as flawed. In September 2002 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic composition of democratically elected members of parliament established on the basis of an...
stated that it was “seriously concerned about the lack of progress” and established an investigative sub-committee to probe into the “disappearances.”