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  • Launch of the Unified Crime Registration Book initiative

    December 01, 2020

    Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya launched a new initiative: the Unified Crime Registration Book. Security officials' voluntary surrender will mitigate punishment.

    “Today the second stage of the People's Tribunal is starting. We are launching a new project, the Unified Crime Registration Book, created by the National Anti-Crisis Management and ByPol, the foundation of former law enforcement officers.

    Impunity will not last forever. Nobody will deprive the voice of hundreds of thousands of people who want justice. No force can make people forget everything that happened. We will not just remember. In the Unified Crime Registration Book, we will record law violations as precisely as possible. Lawyers will check the collected materials and prepare for the initiation of criminal prosecutions: both at the international level and for the courts of the new Belarus. My team will suggest those people whose crimes are undeniable for including them in sanctions lists.

    Last week, we applied to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Lithuania to start legal proceedings under the universal criminal jurisdiction. This is the case of Maksim Kharoshyn, who was tortured in Belarus and fled to Lithuania. And the Unified Crime Registration Book will help us collect evidence for commencing similar proceedings.

    Every Belarusian can add information to the evidence base. But today, I want to appeal to law enforcement and military forces officers. The Unified Book is the last chance for those who witnessed their colleagues' crimes or were their accomplices. Anyone who considers themselves one of these people can confidentially submit their confession or testify about the crimes they witnessed. Article 63 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus provides for mitigation of punishment for assistance in the investigation. And you can get this right, but only if your colleague does not report you first”.

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