The man is accused of involvement in the enforced disappearance of three individuals.
ZURICH: A former member of a Belarusian special unit accused of making opposition members disappear without trace went on trial in Switzerland today, in the first case of its kind to be heard in the country.
The defendant, who has not been named according to Swiss reporting restrictions, was tracked down in Switzerland by human rights groups.In a weekend interview with the newspaper Schweiz am Wochenende, the accused said that although he was involved in arresting the men he “neither ordered nor carried out the murders”.The Swiss law on enforced disappearance took effect in 2017 but it has not been used in a criminal case before.
The case relates to the 1999 disappearance of former interior minister Yuri Zakharenka, Viktar Hanchar, a former deputy prime minister, and businessman Anatoly Krasouski, with authorities in Belarus refusing to help their families find them. The case follows criminal claims by relatives of two of the victims, and is supported by Geneva-based group Trial International, the International Federation for Human Rights, and the Viasna Human Rights Center in Belarus.The prosecution are seeking a sentence of three years, with two years suspended.
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