Daughter Of Murdered Brester Henadz Shutau Appeals Sentence In Supreme Court

• 8.03.2021, 17:45

Shutau was shot dead in the head on August 11 in Brest.

The daughter of Brest resident Henadz Shutau, murdered by the punishers, has sent an appeal to the Supreme Court, Euroradio reports.

On February 25 in Brest, a court found Shutau posthumously guilty of “resisting a serviceman with the use of violence”. A friend of Henadz Shutau and a witness to his murder, Aliaksandr Kardzyukou, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the same thing. His defense also plans to appeal the verdict.

Shutau received a gunshot wound to the head on August 11 in Brest and died on August 19 in a military hospital in Minsk. During the trial, it became known that an officer of the army special forces, who was sent to help the Brest riot police, was shooting. The Investigatory Committee and the Prosecutor's Office refused to initiate a criminal case upon the fact of Shutau's death. At the trial of Kardzyukou, the murdered Brest resident appeared as an accused.

Henadz Shutau's daughter Anastasia Baranchuk in the appeal considers the verdict of the regional court illegal and unfounded: no evidence of her father's guilt was provided at the trial.

“Shutau’s daughter states that, in her opinion, the military abused their official powers, behaved unreasonably aggressively, and unlawfully used weapons. The video record from the surveillance camera of the yard in which the conflict took place does not confirm any attacks of Kardzyukou and Shutau against these servicemen and, in general, any kind of struggle against them,” says Raman Kislyak, a human rights activist from Brest.