Belarus
Star-Journalist Pavel Sheremet, Minsk buried
About 1,000 mourners appeared Pavel Sheremet in his white Russian homeland, the last honor. He had been killed three days ago in a car bomb attack in neighboring Ukraine.
Among the guests of the mourning ceremony for the well-known independent journalists, the Belarusian opponents of the regime of Vladimir Neklyaev, and of the Russian Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin. With Sheremet was one of the best journalists from three countries have been killed, said Neklyaev, the news Agency AFP at the funeral. He’ll always miss him.
The 44-year-old Sheremet was on Wednesday, the victim of a car bomb attack in the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev. He worked for the influential Internet portal “Ukrainskaja Pravda” and was considered to be closely linked with the Pro-Western leadership of President Petro Poroshenko. In the past few years, he worked mainly in the Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Deputy Mustafa Najem made the Russian leadership responsible for the attack. “The murder is to destabilize our country, and benefited from most of the Kremlin,” said the former Journalist, according to media in Minsk. Similarly, had spoken immediately after the fact, President Poroshenko. The Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko, according to an approximately 50-member special Commission studied in Kiev the deadly bomb attack.
Opponent had Sheremet abundant. He was regarded as an intimate enemy of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, and was a good friend of the murdered Russian opposition Boris Nemtsov. The 44-Year-old condemned the Russian annexation of the Crimea and reported critically about it, but also for a dialogue between Ukrainians and Russians. The Ministry of foreign Affairs in Moscow had condemned the attack on Sheremet open to the public.
The Journalist was awarded in 2002 by the organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE), because he had reported on human rights violations in Belarus. He finally fled from his native country and received Russian citizenship. In October 2015, he said that his visits to Moscow were now uncomfortable. “I’m being threatened and get hints.” He felt on his rounds as if in a mine field.
qu/yy (dpa, afp, AP, rtr)