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Military procuracy casts a veil of secrecy over tortures in KGB prison

2011 2011-09-14T18:20:38+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en

The Belarusian Helsinki Committee has received an answer to his request to hold a check-up concerning the statement of the former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau about tortures in the remand prison of the KGB.

In this answer A. Khalimau, investigator of cases of great importance at the Belarusian Military Procuracy, stated that no criminal case would be instigated on this statement because of the absence of corpus delicti. H also informed the human rights defenders that materials of the check-up couldn't be revealed to the public as some of this information contained a state secret.

The BHC, in its turn, believes that such materials cannot be secret and intends to demand access to the results of the check-up.

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