{"id":122454,"date":"2023-09-29T09:59:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T07:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=122454"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:43:06","slug":"surprise-move-swiss-court-acquits-belarusian-enforced-disappearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/122454-surprise-move-swiss-court-acquits-belarusian-enforced-disappearances.html","title":{"rendered":"In surprise move, Swiss court acquits Belarusian of enforced disappearances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Belarusian Yuri Harauski was on Thursday September 28 acquitted by a Swiss cantonal court, despite his confession, of forcibly disappearing leading opposition figures in his country in 1999. The court said his statements were contradictory and that \u201cit is possible that his primary concern was simply to underpin his asylum application in Switzerland\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to the contradictory testimony of the accused, his actual involvement in the enforced disappearance of Yuri Zakharenko, Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky in 1999 cannot be considered to be legally proven,\u201d the District Court of Rorschach (canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland) found on Thursday, September 28. \u201cFor the same reason, however, it cannot be considered proven that he misled the administration of justice, i.e. falsely accused himself of involvement in a criminal offence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-all-agreed-to-believe-the-defendant\">All agreed to believe the defendant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also cast doubt on whether Harauski\u2019s statements were to help him get asylum in Switzerland. As the court points out, the prosecutor, legal representatives of the civil parties and the defence all agreed that they should believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/121898-belarus-hit-squad-member-trial-switzerland-enforced-disappearances.html\">the accused's stories<\/a>. But, it said, the Swiss legal definition of \u201cenforced disappearances\u201d that can be prosecuted under universal jurisdiction requires that they are carried out \u201con behalf of, or with the endorsement of a State or a political organisation\u201d. Although Harauski had in his confessions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/121898-belarus-hit-squad-member-trial-switzerland-enforced-disappearances.html\">implicated others<\/a>, including Dmitrij Pavli\u010denko, commander of the Interior Ministry\u2019s SOBR special unit, the court found that the involvement of the State had not been sufficiently proven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harauski was a member of the SOBR, an elite unit of the Belarusian Interior Ministry. He came to Switzerland in 2018 or 2019, according to media reports, and claimed asylum on grounds of being in danger from the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko for having talked about the SOBR involvement in these disappearances. He has been granted temporary residence in canton St. Gallen, where his two-day trial was held on September 19 and 20. Although the accused confessed and apologised to victims, his defence lawyer pleaded not-guilty on grounds that the legal requirements for the charges had not been fulfilled. The prosecution asked for a three-year jail term, with two years suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-numerous-contradictions\">\u201cNumerous contradictions\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the course of his various interrogations \u2013 for example in the asylum procedure, in the investigation proceedings before the public prosecutor's office and finally in court \u2013 the accused became entangled in numerous contradictions,\u201d the court found. It said he had not been able to answer clearly some simple questions about the SOBR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is \u201cpossible, or even likely\u201d that the accused served in the SOBR, says the court. \u201cHowever, it remains unclear whether and to what extent he was actually involved in the actions brought to trial. It remains possible that he heard details about these actions from other comrades, whether during or after his service, for example at his regular veterans' meetings, or that he took them from the media. It is possible that his primary concern was simply to underpin his asylum application in Switzerland with the most dramatic descriptions possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ngos-regret-the-verdict\">NGOs \u201cregret the verdict\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Geneva-based TRIAL International, one of the NGOs that helped bring the case, said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trialinternational.org\/latest-post\/belarus-acquittal-of-lukashenka-regime-henchman-in-switzerland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>\u00a0soon after the verdict that victims are disappointed with this verdict and \u201cremain in a state of uncertainty about the exact circumstances of their loved ones\u2019 disappearances\u201d. TRIAL International is not a party in the trial, but filed a joint complaint with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Belarusian human rights centre Viasna. The case comes after criminal complaints from two of the victims\u2019 relatives, daughters of the disappeared, and these NGOs which supported them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTRIAL International, FIDH and Viasna regret today\u2019s verdict and will continue to support the victims in their quest for justice, including during the appeal process,\u201d said the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"articleLink articleLink--editorRecommanded articleLink--textInImage articleLink--textTop\" style=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"articleLinkSurTitle\">Recommended reading<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"articleLinkImageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/121898-belarus-hit-squad-member-trial-switzerland-enforced-disappearances.html\"><div class=\"articleLinkImageContainer \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belarus_Yury-Harauski_@DW-540x360.jpg\" class=\"articleLinkImage backgroundImageTag w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Yuri Harauski on trial in Switzerland for enforced disappearances in Belarus\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/div><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/121898-belarus-hit-squad-member-trial-switzerland-enforced-disappearances.html\" class=\"articleLinkTitle articleLinkTitle--default\">\r\n\t\t\tBelarus \u201chit squad\u201d member on trial in Switzerland for enforced disappearances\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian Yuri Harauski was on Thursday September 28 acquitted by a Swiss cantonal court, despite his confession, of forcibly disappearing leading opposition figures in his country in 1999. The court said his statements were contradictory and that \u201cit is possible that his primary concern was simply to underpin his asylum application in Switzerland\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":122462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2801],"tags":[2877],"ji_location":[2123,2497],"class_list":["post-122454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-universal-jurisdiction","tag-enforced-disappearance","ji_location-belarus","ji_location-switzerland"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Switzerland: Belarusian Yuri Harauski acquitted in surprise move<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Belarusian Yuri Harauski was on Thursday September 29, 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