Enforced disappearances in Belarus: Appeal against acquittal of former member of Lukashenka’s hit squad to take place in Switzerland

The appeal trial of Yuri Harauski, a former member of SOBR, a special police force under President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, will take place on 24 June 2026 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Harauski is accused of participating in the enforced disappearances of three political opponents in Belarus in 1999, to which he confessed.

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