{"id":44438,"date":"2021-04-16T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/?p=44438"},"modified":"2025-06-29T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:07:43","slug":"by-2021-04-16-belarus-parliament-moves-to-pass-law-banning-private-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/by-2021-04-16-belarus-parliament-moves-to-pass-law-banning-private-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"BY 2021.04.16 Belarus Banning Private Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2021\/04\/16\/18\/Belarus_Russia_24598.jpg?width=982&amp;height=726&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lukashenko Banning Private Lawyers<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Full control over Lawyers by the State<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Reducing the defense options<\/em>,<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>The parliament of\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/belarus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Belarus<\/strong><\/a><em><strong>\u00a0gave initial approval Friday to a law that would ban private attorneys, reducing the defense options for people charged in connection with protests and political dissent.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>The measure, drafted by the administration of authoritarian President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/alexander-lukashenko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexander Lukashenko<\/a>,\u00a0passed the first reading, and its eventual adoption appears certain because there are no opposition members of parliament.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the proposed law, lawyers could work only as part of the system of state-created consulting offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe new law means the establishment of full control over lawyers by the state and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/en\/by-2019-10-24-ministry-of-justice-belarus-2nd-appeal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Ministry of Justice<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, Siarhej Zikratski, a lawyer who has represented many Belarusian independent journalists, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationwide protests broke out after Belarus\u2019 presidential election in August when official results gave Lukashenko a sixth term in office; opponents say the results were manipulated. Authorities cracked down harshly on the protests, some of which attracted as many as 200,00 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Source: INDEPENDENT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/belarus-parliament-moves-to-pass-law-banning-private-lawyers-alexander-lukashenko-kyiv-ukraine-belarus-ministry-of-justice-b1832826.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/belarus-parliament-moves-to-pass-law-banning-private-lawyers-alexander-lukashenko-kyiv-ukraine-belarus-ministry-of-justice-b1832826.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukashenko Banning Private Lawyers Full control over Lawyers by the State Reducing the defense options, The parliament of\u00a0Belarus\u00a0gave initial approval Friday to a law that would ban private attorneys, reducing the defense options for people charged in connection with protests and political dissent. The measure, drafted by the administration of authoritarian President\u00a0Alexander Lukashenko,\u00a0passed the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}