Prosecutor General's Office ping-pongs complaints of travel banned people

The Prosecutor General's Office sent a complaint of Viasna human rights centre deputy head Valyantsin Stefanovich, who was banned from leaving Belarus, to the Ministry of Defence.

The human rights activist received an appropriate notice from the Prosecutor General's Office on March 28, Viasna human rights centre reports.

Stefanovich asked in his complaint to carry out an inquiry and find the persons responsible for an illegal decision to impose a travel ban on him and demanded to take urgent measures to reinstate his rights.

According to Valyantsin Stefanovich, “such action to restrict exit from the country are of intentional nature and aimed at violating the constitutional rights of citizens to freedom of movement exclusively for political reasons. In this case, the Prosecutor's General Office should have carried out an inquiry, but instead, re-sent the complaint to the Ministry of Defence.”

Valyantsin Stefanovich is going to appeal against the decision on the travel ban in court.

Valyantsin Stefanovich could not leave Belarus on March 11. Border guards told him at Kamenny Loh checkpoint on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border he was restricted to leave the country.

We remind a number of opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists have been banned from leaving Belarus in the last few weeks.