Today would have marked Aleh Byabenin’s 37th birthday

The founder of charter97.org, Aleh Byabenin, was born on this day.

Aleh Byabenin was found hanged in his summer house outside Minsk on September 3, 2010. The law-enforcement agencies hurried to declare it was a suicide. However, the journalist’s death raises many questions. Forensic experts even say different dates of the journalist’s death. Aleh Byabenin did not leave a suicide note. Friends and colleagues of the journalist state that there were marks of violence on his body.

Representatives of democratic community say about a “political murder”. Aleh was in the team of one of Lukashenka’s main rivals at the oncoming December 19 presidential elections, leader of European Belarus civil campaign Andrei Sannikov. Everyone remembers how confrontation with the authorities ended for some opponents of the regime ahead of the 2001 elections – Yury Zakharanka, Viktar Hanchar, Anatol Krasouski, Henadz Karpenka, Dzmitry Zavadski.

We will learn the truth about the death of our colleague when the power will change. A criminal case over the tragic death of Aleh Byabenin will be opened and investigated by the best Belarusian criminalists.