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The inquiry commission said it was investigating a criminal case of incitement to hatred for social reasons and “insulting an official or his relatives for the performance of their official duties” on the Internet.
“The suspects in the criminal case are 136 of the so-called anonymous commenters,” the officials added, noting that all of these individuals have been arrested.
On September 28, the Belarusian KDB reported that a man who had shot and killed one of the officers had been killed by “back fire” during a raid by security officers on an apartment in Minsk.
The KDB did not reveal the identity of the man, but called him a “very dangerous criminal”.
State television showed plainclothes officers stormed the apartment during the incident, and a man inside began shooting at them with a rifle.
It is unclear how the video was received from the apartment.
A commission of inquiry investigating serious crimes later found the person to be Andrei Zelzer, a 31-year-old resident of the capital Minsk.
Committee representatives added that his wife of 40 years had also been detained at the scene.
The senior adviser to Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, the opposition leader who went to Lithuania, announced that A. Zelcer had worked for one of the largest IT companies in Belarus, EPAM Systems.
On Wednesday, Belarus blocked the website of the popular daily Kamsamolskaya Pravda in an interview with Zelcer’s former classmate.
On Monday, the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna reported that more than 110 people had been detained for comments about the death of the security guard before October 1.
The circumstances of the shootings remain unclear, but the incident has raised questions in Belarus, where the government is cracking down on dissenting elections sparked by the opposition and Western countries after last year’s unprecedented protests against the government. of President Aliaksandr Lukashenko.
Speaking last Friday at the funeral of a shot KDB officer, Lukashenko said that the shootings in Minsk had been staged in advance and that the image of the incident was “broadcast to Poland and the United States.”
Mr. Lukashenko added that the attacker “was not only an active participant in the protest movement, as we kindly say, but a real participant in the uprising.”
Minsk seeks to quell the remaining pockets of resistance by targeting opponents of the head of state, human rights defenders, non-governmental organizations and the independent media.
Last Friday, the Supreme Court decided to liquidate the Helsinki Committee of Belarus, the last official human rights organization in the country.
Western countries have issued a chain of sanctions on Lukashenko and his comrades, but their impact appears to be limited as Belarus has the backing of Russia, an ally and financially.
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