BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

03/12/2007

Belarusian Court Sentences Offices For Beating Senior Official

The Supreme Court on November 30 sentenced state security officers Syarhey Narkevich to five years in a medium-security correctional institution and Alyaksandr Arlouski to two years in a minimum-security institution for beating Zyanon Lomats, the chairman of the State Monitoring Committee, Belapan and RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported. The court sentenced two another state security officers, Yury Zahorski and Syarhey Manayeu, to "restriction in military service" for one year. Lomats was beaten in the eastern city of Mahilyou on July 12 by eight men who claimed to be officers of the Interior Ministry. They were subsequently arrested by city police. Seven of the attackers reportedly turned out to be State Security Committee (KGB) officers, and one was an officer of the Security Council. The incident with Lomats caused President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to replace Stsyapan Sukharenka with Yury Zhadobin as the head of the KGB. AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/12/3-cee/cee-031207.asp