Belarus continues searching for missing opposition politicians

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Belarus has continued an investigation into the disappearances of high-profile politicians in Belarus, Prosecutor General Pyotr Miklashevich told a news conference on January 16 in Minsk. Investigators have not confirmed the fact of the disappearances up to now, he said.

Yury Zakharenka, former Belarus's Interior Minister, went missing in May 1999. Opposition politician Viktar Hanchar and businessman Anatol Krasouski disappeared in September 1999. Dmitry Zavadsky, a cameramn for the Russian television network ORT, went missing in July 2000, reminds Belapan.