Today is 59th birthday of Anatol Krasouski

• 17.05.2011, 15:31

Anatol Krasouski was abducted on September 16, 1999.

For almost 12 years Belarusian authorities have been completely ignoring the appeals of family and friends, and also the international community to carry out an open investigation and check information about involvement in the abductions of the highest country officials. There is no information about the fate of Anatol Krasouski so far.

On November 16, 2008 a suit on behalf of Anatol, Iryna and Valeryja Krasouski against the state of Belarus was registered in the UN Committee for Human Rights, and its copy was sent to the defendant.

The suit by Krasouski family was prepared by a law company from he Netherlands; it consists of 100 paragraphs, 25 documents for more than 1000 pages were attached to it. In their own name and also on behalf of Anatol Krasouski, Iryna Krasouskaya and Valeryja Krasouskaya urge the state of Belarus:

1) to interrogate suspects in the forcible abduction of Anatol Krasouski, named in the special memorandum of the deputy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Christos Pourgourides immediately;

2) to meet numerous requests of the members of Anatol Krasouski family and of the international community to carry out a careful and open investigation of Anatol Krasouski’s disappearance;

3) to locate and inform about the burial place of Anatol Krasouski;

4) to compensate moral and material damaged to the victims of Anatol Krasouski’s forcible abduction.

After the Mission of Belarus at the UN used all possible ways to slow down the legal action, the suit was registered and it is to be considered by one of the nearest sessions of the UN Committee for Human Rights.