KGB and Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption are organizations that support terrorism. Resolution of the Senate of the Czech Republic
Today (February 15, 2023) the Czech Senate passed a resolution on the Lukashenko regime's repression of civil society. Thirty-nine of the 41 senators voted in favor of the resolution. The KGB and Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption are recognized as organizations supporting terrorism.
One step is left before the executive authorities of the Czech Republic declare the above-mentioned criminal structures of Lukashenko as terrorist. This is an important event for all of us, which would not have been possible without the systematic work of lawyers and diplomats and the representation of the United Transition Cabinet of Belarus on the transfer of power and the National Anti-crisis Management.
The Senate of the Czech Republic officially declares:
KGB and Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption are used by the regime to harass the opposition and intimidate civil society in Belarus;
the organizations committed an act of state terrorism and attack on democracy, freedom of speech and European sovereignty by grounding a Ryanair plane and detaining Roman Protasiewicz and Sofia Sapega;
Since February 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation have been attacking Ukraine from the territory of Belarus, which makes the highest representatives of the Belarusian regime complicit in the crime of aggression, by committing it in the most flagrant violation of the UN Charter;
Disagreement with the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine is now considered a crime in Belarus;
In Belarus, the death penalty is applied; a number of protesters are treated as terrorists, so they can be subjected to capital punishment;
Trials involving the unjustly convicted are often held without the participation of the public and journalists, so there is no public control over the actions of penitentiary structures;
There are about 1,450 political prisoners in Belarus today, and their number is growing; neither family members, members of the diplomatic corps, nor observers have access to them.
In view of the above, the Czech Senate recommends that the government impose sanctions on employees of the KGB and Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption penitentiary structures and declare them organizations that support terrorism.
Earlier, a resolution on Belarus and a call to recognize the KGB and Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption as terrorist organizations were adopted by the Seimas of Lithuania in December 2022.