{"id":535316,"date":"2026-04-21T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=535316"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:27:11","slug":"latushka-calls-for-suspending-lukashenka-regime-s-access-to-interpol-information-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latushka-calls-for-suspending-lukashenka-regime-s-access-to-interpol-information-system","title":{"rendered":"Latushka Calls for Suspending Lukashenka Regime\u2019s Access to Interpol Information System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet and member of the Coordination Council delegation to PACE <strong><b>Pavel Latushka<\/b><\/strong> took part in a meeting of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the topic of \u201cCountering Transnational Repression\u201d. The meeting took place on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>PACE rapporteur on transnational repression <strong><b>Konstantinos Efstathiou<\/b><\/strong> spoke at the event and presented information obtained following a meeting at Interpol. Latushka submitted an additional statement in which he described how the Lukashenka regime uses Interpol for political purposes, the United Transitional Cabinet <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/CabinetBelarus\/4825\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cThis is not simply abuse by the regime. Interpol mechanisms are effectively becoming an instrument of persecution and a threat to the safety of thousands of Belarusians who have left the country as a result of the policy of large-scale political repression\u201d<\/i><\/em>, the deputy head of the United Transitional Cabinet said.<\/p>\n<p>Latushka called on PACE member states that are also Interpol members to check requests from Belarus in criminal cases for possible political motivation, and to draw the attention of Interpol\u2019s General Secretariat to the Lukashenka regime\u2019s repeated abuse of the organization\u2019s mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy head of the United Transitional Cabinet proposed considering the application of Paragraph 4 of Article 123 of Interpol\u2019s Rules on the Processing of Data and suspending the Lukashenka regime\u2019s access to the organization\u2019s information system.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cInterpol must uphold the rule of law, not serve as a means of handing innocent people over to dictators\u201d<\/i><\/em>, Latushka stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The PACE rapporteur on transnational repression supported the position of the Belarusian delegation representative. Efstathiou noted that Belarus is a clear example of a country where Interpol notification systems are used for the political persecution of dissidents abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The teams of the National Anti-Crisis Management and the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya will cooperate on countering attempts by the regime to use Interpol as an instrument for the political persecution of Belarusians who disagree with the policies of the Lukashenka regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet and member of the Coordination Council delegation to PACE Pavel Latushka took part in a meeting of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the topic of \u201cCountering Transnational Repression\u201d. The meeting took place on April 21. PACE rapporteur on transnational repression Konstantinos Efstathiou spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":510057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e7a567ce63b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Latushka Calls for Suspending Lukashenka Regime\u2019s Access to Interpol Information System"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-535316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}