{"id":134237,"date":"2021-08-03T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=134237"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T09:09:32","slug":"belarusian-activist-found-hanged-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/belarusian-activist-found-hanged-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian activist found hanged in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Vitaly Shishov, leader of the Kyiv-based Belarusian House in Ukraine, was found hanged in one of the city&#x27;s parks not far from his home, police said in a statement. <\/li>\n<li>A murder probe has been launched, with police investigating that the killing was made to look like suicide, the statement read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 A Belarusian activist who ran a group in Ukraine helping Belarusians fleeing persecution was found dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, local police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Vitaly Shishov, leader of the Kyiv-based Belarusian House in Ukraine, was found hanged in one of the city&#x27;s parks not far from his home, police said in a statement. A murder probe has been launched, with police investigating that the killing was made to look like suicide, the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian House in Ukraine reported Monday that Shishov had gone missing during a morning run. The Belarusian human rights center Viasna cited Shishov&#x27;s friends as saying that he has recently been followed by strangers during his runs.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian House in Ukraine helps Belarusians fleeing persecution with their legal status in Ukraine, accommodation and employment.<\/p>\n<p>In Belarus in recent weeks, authorities have ramped up the pressure against non-governmental organizations and independent media, conducting more than 200 raids of offices and apartments of activists and journalists in July alone, and detaining dozens of people.<\/p>\n<p>Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has vowed to continue what he called a &quot;mopping-up operation&quot; against civil society activists whom he has denounced as &quot;bandits and foreign agents.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenko faced months of protests triggered by his being awarded a sixth term in an August 2020 vote that the opposition and the West saw as rigged. He responded to demonstrations with a massive crackdown that saw more than 35,000 people arrested and thousands beaten by police.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian House in Ukraine said in a statement Tuesday that Shishov was forced to move to Ukraine in the fall of 2020, when antigovernment protests and crackdown on demonstrators in Belarus were in full swing.<\/p>\n<p>In Ukraine, he was under surveillance, and &quot;both local sources and our people in Belarus&quot; have alerted the group to the possibility of &quot;various provocations, including kidnapping and liquidation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is no doubt that this was a planned operation by security operatives to liquidate a Belarusian, dangerous for the regime. We will continue to fight for the truth about Vitaly&#x27;s death,&quot; the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/03\/vitaly-shishov-belarusian-activist-found-hanged-in-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Shishov, leader of the Kyiv-based Belarusian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarusian activist found hanged in Ukraine - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/belarusian-activist-found-hanged-in-ukraine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Belarusian activist found hanged in Ukraine - 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