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Search in flat of Byarozayka activist Vitold Ashurka held unlawfully

Search in flat of Byarozayka activist Vitold Ashurka held unlawfully

A public activist Vitold Ashurka has received answers to his complaints he had addressed to the Prosecutor’s office and the Investigative Committee of Lida district.

The reason for his complaint was the search held in Ashurka’s flat in his absence on July 27 this year. The search was held in the framework of the criminal case opened after unidentified persons held a flesh mob with smoke bombs near the entrance gate of glassworks Neman, Viasna human rights organisation website informs.

Officials who held the search in the flat of Ashurka, didn’t comply with requirements of the law and haven’t made a copy of the search record. The activist attracted attention to that in his complaints, and also asked to give him back the things that had been seized from him, including computers.

The acting prosecutor of Lida district Andrei Sakomski told Vitold Ashurka that in the actions of the operative of the criminal investigation department of Lid police, police lieutenant Yauhen Rumo there had been detected violations of Article 212 Part 4 of the Criminal Procedural Code of Belarus, indeed, and that is why a decree was issued to open a disciplinary proceedings for examination of the case on its merits by the head of Lida police department.

The criminal investigator of Lida department of the Investigative Committee, Police Lieutenant Colonel Anatol Bichel told Ashurka that the copy of his complaint had been added to the materials of the criminal case and would be examined as a part of it. The head of the district department of the Investigative Committee Colonel Alyaksandr Urbanovich by a special official letter informed that the grounds for the search at Ashurka’s place was written information of the criminal police of Lida police department. The fate of the seized property of Vitold Ashurka would be determined in the framework of the criminal case investigation, and he is to be informed about that additionally.

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