Main hockey player, main Olympian, main judge

• 8.10.2009, 14:57

The amendments, which will allow Alyaksandr Lukashenka issue legal extrajudicial decisions, are being prepared to the Belarusian legislation.

Minister of Justice of Belarus Viktar Halavanau says the Ministry of Justice prepares an amendment to the criminal code that will allow suspending instigating of a criminal case, if an individual, against whom the case was instigated, made a motion to Alyaksandr Lukashenka until the motion is considered by the Belarusian ruler.

Thus, Lukashenka, who has power to pardon and release of criminal responsibility for economic crimes, gains the right to decide the destiny of every person in Belarus.

If a commission subdued to Lukashenka agrees on instigating a criminal case, it will be no question about a verdict of the court. If the planned amendments are adopted, judges will turn into technical executors.

We remind that Alyaksandr Lukashenka suggested in August 2009 that the interior minister, the KGB and Financial Investigation Department heads should get the right for “carry out operative and search activity, use measures of restraint and perform other procedure actions on a motivated ground”. The Belarusian ruler is sure that “such top officials” are not less competent than a prosecutor. Lukashenka also insists on creation of a separate investigative committee subjected to him.

Belarusian human rights activists think the last initiatives of the Belarusian dictator send the country back to the notorious Stalin’s Troika commissions, when the head of a local NKVD department, a secretary of the regional committee, and a prosecutor authorized arrests before trials. It was used to eliminate the “anti-Soviet elements”.