In Lida District, Lukashists Wanted to Judge a Woman Who Has Been Dead for a Long Time

The woman was accused of participating in the Solidarity March.

The head of the human rights center "Legal Assistance to the Population" Aleh Vouchak told "Salidarnasts" a real story that happened the other day in the court of the Lida region.

Young people came to court to attend court hearings on administrative cases for the Solidarity Marches. One of the guys, Aliaksandr, saw that a trial against his mother would begin on September 30.

The young man had doubts: it's some kind of mistake since his mother died in 2014, and he decided to come at the appointed time for the hearing of the administrative case.

"Judge Ihar Kashko came out and asked in the corridor if there was citizen Valiantsina Vajtukevich," the human rights activist says. - The son said that she died long ago and provided a document. The judge apologized and said that they would no longer be called.

Aleh Vouchak notes how hard it was for his son to endure this action of the authorities:

- The policeman may have made a mistake, but in order to send the case to the court, the official is obliged to interview the offender, to verify the identity, request information about the person involved from the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where his passport data, registration, administrative or criminal liability are indicated.

It is simply amazing how the head of the police department, without checking the materials on the administrative case, signed them and sent them to the court.

The court must issue a private ruling and send it to the local police department to prosecute the official who made the forgery in the administrative case by indicating the deceased person's data.

Imagine how much pain was for Aliaksandr to have to prove to the judge that his mother had died.