Dzmitryi Zavadsky

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Dsmitryj Aljaksandrawitsch Zavadsky ( Russian Дмитрий Александрович Завадский . / Scientific transliteration of Dmitri Aleksandrovich Zavadskij , Belarusian Dsmitryj Aljaksandrawitsch Zavadsky , Дзмітрый Аляксандравіч Завадскі / Dzmitryj Aljaksandravič Zavadski , * 28. August 1972 , † 7. July 2000 ) was a Belarusian cameraman .

Life

Sawadski worked for the ORT broadcaster (Obschtschestwennoje Rossijskoje Televidenije, from 2002 Perwy kanal ) and was considered an opposition journalist. From 1994 to 1997 he was Aljaksandr Lukashenka's personal cameraman .

On July 7, 2000, Dzmitryi Zavadsky drove to the airport in Minsk, where he wanted to meet the ORT journalist Pawel Sheremet . His car was found on the airport premises, he himself was nowhere to be found. The disappearance of Zavadsky and the three other opponents critical of the government, Lukashenka's Juryy Sacharanka , Wiktar Hantschar and Anatol Krassouski, caused a sensation abroad.

In 2002, the alleged perpetrators Valeri Ignatowitsch, Maxim Malik, Alexei Guse and Sergei Sawuschkin, former officers of a special police unit, etc. a. charged with joint kidnapping and murder in five other cases. Ignatovich and Malik were found guilty by the Supreme Court and sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony. The other defendants were sentenced to between 10 and 25 years in prison. Although the two did not confess, the court took it for granted that Ignatovich and Malik wanted to take revenge on him for a previously broadcast disclosure video by the journalist. On November 27, 2003, Zavadsky was officially declared dead by the Minsk District Court.

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Individual evidence

  1. Где Дмитрий Завадский? ( Memento from May 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Народная Воля, June 20, 2008 (Russian)
  2. a b Report of the Belarusian Public Prosecutor's Office: Прокуратура Белоруссии вновь открыла "дело Завадского" и планирует довеста его докрыла "и планирует довеста его его докрыла" и планирует довести его on July 23, 2005, accessed on July 23, 2020 ( russ.com,.
  3. "Belarus: Without trace: Uncovering the fate of Belarus ', Disappeared'" , Amnesty International, August 31, 2002, accessed on July 24, 2020.
  4. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: detailed report on inoforum.ru ) (Russian, accessed on July 23, 2011)@1@ 2Template: dead link / inoforum.ru