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According to Aleksandras Dabravolskis, a representative from the headquarters of the Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, Marija Matusevič, a Lithuanian citizen, filed an application with the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office on Monday.
“Yes, she contacted the police on February 1, the survey was in the morning, they questioned her for a long time, she told everything, her story is interesting,” Dabravolski told BNS.
This is the second appeal to the Lithuanian law enforcement authorities regarding violence by Belarusian law enforcement agencies against protesters.
M. Matusevič himself has not yet been contacted by BNS.
Matusevich, who lived in Minsk, told the LRT Panorama television program in January that the owners were arrested and beaten for two days last August, during protests that took place immediately after the presidential elections. Then he moved to Vilnius.
“I accidentally found my Lithuanian passport and started saying that it was a Lithuanian doll, that it paid me to destroy the country, to stand for life,” said M. Matusevič.
According to the LRT, Belarus has banned Matusevich from returning to the country for five years.
A. Dabravolskis told BNS that more people, including two Belarusian nationals who had arrived in Lithuania, intended to request violence against the Belarusian militia.
The prosecutor’s office conducting the investigation in accordance with Choroshin’s request claims that the primary data provided by Belarus was evaluated with the characteristics of a crime subject to universal jurisdiction under the Lithuanian Penal Code. This allows criminal liability regardless of the nationality of the victims or suspects, the place of the crime, and whether it is punishable by law in the state where the crime was committed.
The crimes that can be covered by universal jurisdiction include torture, which is one of the crimes against humanity.
Protests against electoral fraud have continued in Belarus since August. Officials of the Minsk regime suppress the protests by force.
Former presidential candidate S. Cichanouskaja, who left for Lithuania after the elections, urges other European countries to follow Lithuania’s example and undertake investigations into torture.
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