Will The Hague Issue Arrest Warrant For Lukashenka?

The application of the Polish lawyer contains 40 thousand pages of documents.

Polish attorney Tomasz Wilinski has filed a statement against Aliaksandr Lukashenka and the Belarusian officials to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The statement is similar to the one he'd filed earlier to the National Prosecutor's Office of Poland - on suspicion of genocide and crimes against humanity, reports telegraf.by.

It is reported that the statement contains 160 pages of legal reasoning and 40,000 pages of documents in an attachment.

Wilinski's law firm is calling on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to initiate an investigation. The suspects in the statement are Aliaksandr Lukashenka, Ivan Tsertsel, Mikalai Karpenkou and other representatives of various Belarusian power structures.

"This is an important statement, which together with other tools should encourage the leaders of different countries to take more active legal actions: to file applications to the International Court of Justice on behalf of governments, to declare suspects wanted by the universal jurisdiction and others," says opposition politician Pavel Latushka, against whom several criminal cases have been filed in Belarus.

According to him, even before the verdict, the International Criminal Court has the right to issue an arrest warrant and put the suspects on the wanted list of Interpol after analyzing the submitted materials.

On December 23, it became known that the Polish lawyer Tomasz Wilinski had filed a "notice of suspicion of crimes" to the National Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, accusing Aliaksandr Lukashenka and some other persons from Belarus.

The most serious charges are genocide and crimes against humanity. Among other things, the documents allegedly contain accusations of "crimes against citizens of Belarus, Poland, Iraq, Syria and other countries".

In addition, attention is paid to the migration crisis, the incident with the Ryanair plane in Minsk and the detention of Polish citizens (Andrej Poczobut, Anzhalika Borys and others).