Experts went, but questions remain

• 29.10.2010, 11:00

The OSCE criminalists finished familiarizing with the materials of prosecutor’s inquiry into the death of journalist Aleh Byabenin.

It’s not reported whether we can learn the conclusion of the OSCE experts and what conclusions they made.

Head of the information department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Belarus Pyotr Kisyalyou told Interfax-Zapad news agency: “The OSCE experts were satisfied with their work in Minsk and thanked the chiefs and staff of Belarusian prosecution agencies.”

“They didn’t ask any new materials expect for those that had been given them in Minsk. The experts met with relatives and friends of Aleh Byabenin, visited the summer house where the journalist’s body had been found,” Kisyalyou noted.

As charter97.org website learnt, the OSCE experts were going to meet with Belarusian presidential aspirant Andrei Sannikov, a friend of the late journalist, at 8:00 yesterday. The politician planned to fly from Berlin, where he was on a business visit, at 6:00 pm. by a strange confluence of circumstances a plane of Belavia airlines was delayed foe some hours and Sannikov arrived in Minsk only after 10:00 pm. the meeting with the OSCE experts was called off.

Aleh Byabenin, the founder and director of charter97.org website, was found hanged up in his summer house near Minsk on September 3. The law-enforcement agencies hurried to report it was a suicide. The death of Aleh Byabenin raises many questions. Forensic scientists cannot define the exact time of his death. Aleh Byabenin didn’t leave a suicide note .friends and relartives of the journalist claim there were signs of violence on his body. Aleh Byabenin was a key figure in the team of opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov.