An appeals court in Serbia has overturned an earlier ruling that a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in Belarus should be extradited to that country and said that the case must be retried. Serbian authorities arrested Andrei Hniot on Oct.
Speaker Mike Johnson calls off a House vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown as the GOP plan hits bipartisan opposition.Andrei Hniot, a filmmaker and a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in Belarus , stands in his apartment in Belgrade , Serbia , where he is under house arrest on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.
The appeals court in Belgrade said on its website on Wednesday that the first-instance court provided no firm evidence that Hniot evaded taxes in his country and sent the case back to the first-instance court “for a new decision.” “If the court again rules that conditions are met for his extradition, we will again file an appeal,” Hniot’s lawyer Filip Sofijanic told N1 television.. He filmed mass protests that erupted in 2020 against Lukashenko’s disputed reelection and covered the harsh crackdown on dissent the government unleashed in response, before fleeing the country.
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