Dzmitry Zavadski

Dmitri Alexandrovich Sawadski (Russian Дмитрий Александрович Завадский / scientific transliteration Dmitri Aleksandrovich Zavadskij, Belarusian Dsmitryj Aljaksandrawitsch Sawadski, Дзмітрый Аляксандравіч Завадскі / Dzmitryj Aljaksandravič Zavadski, born August 28, 1972; † 7 July 2000) was a Belarusian cameraman.

Life

Sawadski worked for the ORT ( Obschtschestwennoje Rossijskoje Telewidenije, from 2002 Perwy channel ) and was regarded as opposition journalist. From 1994-1997 he was the personal cameraman Alexander Lukashenko.

On 7 July 2000 Dmitry Sawadski went to Minsk, where he wanted to meet with the ORT journalist Pavel Sheremet to the airport. His car was found at the airport, he was nowhere to be found. The disappearance of Sawadski and a further three critical of the government of Lukashenko opponents, including jury Sacharanka, caused a great sensation abroad.

In 2002 the alleged perpetrators Valery Ignatovich, Maxim Malik, Alexei and Sergei Sawuschkin Guse, a former official of a special police unit, including as joint abduction and murder accused in five other cases. Ignatovich and Malik were found by the Supreme Court and sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony. The other defendants were sentenced to prison terms of 10-25 years. Although there was no confession of the two, it saw the court as given, that Ignatovitsch and Malik wanted to take revenge for a previously sent unveiling video of the journalist in him. On 27 November 2003 Sawadski was officially declared by the District Court Minsk dead.