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[Rusvesna] President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko invited representatives of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) law enforcement agencies to Minsk to ask questions of the detained blogger Roman Protasevich.
“If they have any questions, you are welcome to us, ask questions. Because they killed people there, in the Donbass, ”he said during the meeting.
“And he shouted on the plane: 'I face the death penalty.' And our journalists justified that we do not provide for the death penalty under such an article, but for 15 years.
He knew what he was saying, he understood that there, in the south-east of Ukraine, claims could be brought against him, and this is a completely different situation, ”Lukashenko added.
As Russkaya Vesna previously reported , the LPR General Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case against Protasevich.
Protasevich is suspected of participating in the activities of an organization that, in accordance with the legislation of the LPR, is recognized as terrorist, the use in an armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by international treaties, weapons of mass destruction prohibited by international treaties, and the commission of genocide, on the basis of crimes under Part 2 of Art. 244, h. 1, 2 of Art. 439, art. 440 of the Criminal Code of the LPR.
Says Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
It is worth noting that Belarus does not officially recognize the LPR, and moreover, in Belarus, sentences were passed on citizens who fought on the side of the republics, but in this case, the LPR authorities actually receive an official invitation to conduct investigative actions on the territory of Belarus. At the same time, it is as if implicitly implied that under certain circumstances, after the sentencing, Protasevich may also receive a term in Donbass if Belarus recognizes the jurisdiction of the LPR authorities to prosecute Protasevich for committing war crimes.
On the other hand, it can be a clever move to make Protasevich compliant - you won't cooperate with the investigation, here people from the LPR are waiting for you. They have even more interesting questions for you.
Other Russian language reports say Protasevich is cooperating.
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