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Accountability for Enforced Disappearances in Belarus: Appeal Against Acquittal of Former Member of Lukashenka’s Hit Squad to Take Place in Switzerland   The appeal trial of Yuri Harauski, a former member of SOBR, a special police force under President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, will take place on 24 June 2026 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Harauski is accused of part...

  1. Who is Yuri Harauski and what are the charges brought against him? Yuri Harauski is a Belarusian citizen, former member of an elite unit of the Internal Troops of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs (SOBR), which was created by President Lukashenka in 1998. He is accused of having participated in the enforced disappearances of two emblematic figure...

Appeal trial against former member of President Lukashenka's elite hit squad to take place on 24 June in Switzerland   What The appeal trial of Yuri Harauski, former member of a Belarussian elite unit, for his participation in the enforced disappearances of three opponents of the regime, will take place on 24 June 2026 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Why After...

The origins of the case Hope was born on 22 October 2011, the day Khaled Nezzar was arrested in Switzerland. Five victims had brought civil proceedings against him, accusing the former Algerian Defence Minister of participating in the war crimes of torture, inhuman treatment, arbitrary detention and murder, as crimes against humanity. The events allegedly took pla...

Words from Ram Maya Nakarmi, whose husband was taken away in 2003   When they came for Padam, Ram Maya Nakarmi's husband, everything went very quickly. She told me that she begged the security personnel to let her accompany them to the station. They refused but promised that her husband would come back the next day... Since then, 18 years have passed. [cap...